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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.
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About the Author:
Ward Berenschot is a political scientist and a postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden. He specializes in identity politics, citizenship and local democracy in India and Indonesia.
Review:
[Riot Politics] is a remarkable addition to the literature on communalism in India. --Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow, CNRS, CERI
This volume provides a rich ethnographic account of the modus operandi of grassroots political actors in communal (ethnic) violence. Berenschot provides an insight into everyday politics and the state in Gujarat, India. Highly useful for students of Indian politics and society. --Ghanshyam Shah, National Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study
This volume provides a rich ethnographic account of the modus operandi of grassroots political actors in communal (ethnic) violence. Berenschot provides an insight into everyday politics and the state in Gujarat, India. Highly useful for students of Indian politics and society. --Ghanshyam Shah, National Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study
An exciting new study of the relationship between political mediation and violence in Gujarat, this work is ethnographically rich, well-written, and theoretically ambitious.
(Samria Sheikh, Vanderbilt University) --(Samria Sheikh, Vanderbilt University)"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherC Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1849041369
- ISBN 13 9781849041362
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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