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riot politics hindu muslim violence and the indian state
[Paperback - 2012]
ward berenschot
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Category: History
Sub-category: South Asian History
Additional Category: South Asian History - Political Science
Publisher: Hurst & Company | ISBN: 9781849041362 | Pages: 320
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On 27 February 2002 fifty-eight people died when a train coach caught Western India. The incident marked the beginning of one of the worst outbursts of Hindu-Muslim violence since India s independence. As marauding mobs thronged the streets of Gujarat s cities and villages, local and state-level politicians aided and abetted the violence by making inflammatory speeches, distributing weapons and restraining the police -- who largely sided with the state s majority Hindu inhabitants -- from intervening to stem the bloodshed, which claimed the lives of over two thousand people. Based on an extensive ethnographic study of Gujarat s local politics, Riot Politics offers a novel approach to understanding the processes that foster outbursts of communal violence in India. Berenschot argues that the difficulties that especially poorer citizens face when dealing with state institutions underlie the capacity and interests of political actors to instigate and organise communal violence. As the reader is led into the often shadowy world of local politics in Gujarat, the author reveals how the capacity and willingness of various types of rioters - from politicians, local criminals, Hindu-nationalist activists to neighbourhood leaders and police officials - to organise and perpetrate violence is closely related to the different positions these actors hold in the patronage networks that provide access to state resources.

About the Author

Ward Berenschot is a political scientist and a researcher at Leiden University, specialising in identity politics and local democracy in India and Indonesia.

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