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Introduction Community Conflicts and the State in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2010

Amrita Basu  and
Atul Kohli
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Political conflicts around religious, caste and regional identities have multiplied in India. Whether one views these “million mutinies” as symptomatic of a growing crisis of governability or of a democratic revolution, analytical questions abound. Why is there apparently more violent conflict around identity politics in India today than at any time since Independence? To what extent do the character and intensity of recent conflicts differ from those of the past? What lessons can we learn from cases where community demands have been successfully accommodated? And, relatedly, what measures might alleviate the widespread destruction of life and property and create the sense of predictability on which all social order rests? The following essays analyze both the growing incidence of violent ethnic conflict in India and some of the conditions for their resolution.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , May 1997 , pp. 320 - 324
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997

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