Why do ethnic riots break out when and where they do? Why do some governments try to
prevent ethnic riots while others do nothing or even participate in the violence? In this book …

Ethnic divisions, according to empirical democratic theory, and commonsense
understandings of politics, threaten the survival of democratic institutions. One of the …

Beyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state
ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a …

Katharine Adeney demonstrates that institutional design is the most important explanatory
variable in understanding the different intensity and types of conflict in the two countries …

Exploring five distinct models of federal arrangement, this book evaluates the relative merits
of each model as a mechanism for managing relations in ethnically divided societies. Two …

This book is an ethnographic study of Muslim survivors of ethnic strife in Mumbai and two
major cities of Gujarat. Based on narratives of and interviews with Muslim men and women …

This comprehensive review of the literature on communalism–and its virulent offshoot,
fundamentalism–in India considers the various perspectives from which the issue has …

Summary The Indian state of Bihar has long been a byword for bad governance. It was
however governed particularly badly between 1990 and 2005, and has since experienced …

Routledge Handbook of South Asain Politics: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and
Nepal Page 1 Page 2 The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics examines key issues in …

This article analyzes the determinants of household riot victimization, based on a unique
survey collected in Maharashtra, India. We adopt a multilevel framework that allows …