Religion, Violence and Political Mobilisation in South Asia

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Author: ISBN: 9789352800469
Publisher: SAGE Publications Publication: October 4, 2005
Imprint: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9789352800469
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication: October 4, 2005
Imprint: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Language: English

This volume provide a multidisciplinary thematic exploration of religious violence in South Asia. The contributors examine the actual organization of violence, the role of governmental agencies and state authorities, the socio-economic conditions that contribute to violence, and the long-term consequences of such violence.

Providing original ethnographic accounts from sites of violence in South Asia it:

- map the contemporary discourse on Hindu-Muslim violence and focus on the causes of communal violence as well as its long-term consequences;

- situate the nation-state within the incidents of violence-variously termed ethnic, communal and everyday violence - that simultaneously frame and challenge the authority of the state;

- locate the current discussion on violence and the state in Pakistan, and provide a general thematic overview of religion and state institutions in Pakistan;

- discuss the specific locality-based socio-economic conditions that contribute to violence;

- expand various categories of violence to present a South Asian perspective in regard to the current western discourse on `global terrorism'.

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This volume provide a multidisciplinary thematic exploration of religious violence in South Asia. The contributors examine the actual organization of violence, the role of governmental agencies and state authorities, the socio-economic conditions that contribute to violence, and the long-term consequences of such violence.

Providing original ethnographic accounts from sites of violence in South Asia it:

- map the contemporary discourse on Hindu-Muslim violence and focus on the causes of communal violence as well as its long-term consequences;

- situate the nation-state within the incidents of violence-variously termed ethnic, communal and everyday violence - that simultaneously frame and challenge the authority of the state;

- locate the current discussion on violence and the state in Pakistan, and provide a general thematic overview of religion and state institutions in Pakistan;

- discuss the specific locality-based socio-economic conditions that contribute to violence;

- expand various categories of violence to present a South Asian perspective in regard to the current western discourse on `global terrorism'.

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