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The 2021 assembly election shows that Assamese nationalism and the BJP and RSS Hindutva have coalesced, with Bengali-origin Muslims, or Miya, as the Other. ....
Book Review: How Violence Took Centre Stage in Indian Politics Thomas Blom Hansen s new book, The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics , argues that Hindu-Muslim antagonism, culminating in the Partition, is the violent foundation of Indian politics. Political violence in West Bengal during 2018 Panchayat polls. Photo: PTI. Politics06/May/2021 Almost 20 years ago, political scientist Paul Brass published a book that set out to explain the production of Hindu-Muslim violence in contemporary India. Focusing on half a century of riots in Aligarh, he convincingly implicated the police, criminal elements, members of Aligarhâs business community, and many of its leading political actors in the continuous effort to âproduceâ violence. ....
Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State Gujarat since 2002 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Print publication year: 2015 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107588332 Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State Your name Who would you like to send this to Optional message Book description When violence occurs in democracies it is often characterized as an aberration. The state that saw human rights violations and failure of law and order in Gujarat in 2002 emerged, even if by its own admission, as a model for good governance. Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State, through an account of displaced Muslims, challenges this notion. Through the unlikely yet probing lens of displacement, it offers fresh insight into communal violence and is an important resource for the emerging domain ....