Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the Second Edition ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Part I. Arguments and Theories
6. Chapter 1 Introduction 3
7. Chapter 2 Why Civil Society? Ethnic Conflict and the Existing Traditions of Inquiry 23
8. Part II. The National Level
9. Chapter 3 Competing National Imaginations 53
10. Chapter 4 Hindu-Muslim Riots, 1950–1995: The National Picture 87
11. Part III. Local Variations
12. Chapter 5 Aligarh and Calicut: Civic Life and Its Political Foundations 119
13. Chapter 6 Vicious and Virtuous Circles 149
14. Part III. Local Variations
15. Chapter 7 Princely Resistance to Civil Society 171
16. Chapter 8 Hindu Nationalists as Bridge Builders? 201
17. Part III. Local Variations
18. Chapter 9 Gandhi and Civil Society 219
19. Chapter 10 Decline of a Civic Order and Communal Violence 239
20. Chapter 11 Endogeneity? Of Causes and Consequences 262
21. Part IV. Conclusions
22. Chapter 12 Ethnic Conflict, the State, and Civil Society 281
23. Appendix A. Questionnaire for the Project on Hindu-Muslim Relations in India 301
24. Appendix B. Data Entry Protocol for the Riot Database 309
25. Appendix C. Regression Results: Hindu-Muslim Riots, 1950–1995 314
26. Notes 319
27. Index 373