Riot Politics: Hindu - Muslim Violence and the Indian State

by Ward Berenschot

On 27 February 2002, fifty-eight people died when a coach of the Sabarmati Express was set on fire just outside a small town railway station in Gujarat. The incident sparked the Gujarat riots, one of the worst outbursts of Hindu-Muslim violence in recent history. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8129123754
• ISBN13: 9788129123756
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Rupa Publications
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher