Reflections on Community Conflicts and the State in India

One of the most important contributions of the recent wave of historical and anthropological scholarship on community identities is to analyze the complex manner in which identities are constructed and to study how such constructions influence their enactment. Similar arguments have been made about caste and "communal" categories and conflicts (see, for example, Dirks 1992; Pandey 1990 and 1992). Political theorists and philosophers have contributed to dismantling old categories by exploring the diverse meanings, possibilities, and limits of secularism in India (Bhargav 1994; Bilgrami 1994; Chatterjee 1994). Given these important methodological and theoretical developments, which focus on the construction of community identities, are there distinctive contributions that students of Indian politics can make to the study of community conflicts? The essays in this symposium provide several important responses to this question

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• Do Party Systems Count

  Open Access•Pradeep Chhibber, Irfan Nooruddin•Comparative Political Studies•2004

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• Caricom

  C Griffin, Clifford E Griffin•Commonwealth and Comparative…•2007

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• Religious Nationalism, Violence and the Hindutva Movement in India

  Open Access•Z Baber•Dialectical Anthropology•2000

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• Conflict Self-Inflicted

  Open Access•Brian J Didier•The Journal of Asian Studies•2004

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• Secularism and the Gujarat State

  Open Access•Nikita Sud•Modern Asian Studies•2008

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• Of boundaries and border crossings

  Sujata Ramachandran•Interventions•1999

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• Indigenous politics

  Bengt G Karlsson•Identities•2001

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• Bringing the State Back In

  Open Access•Peter B Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer et al.•Bringing the State Back In•1985

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• The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India

  Gyanendra Pandey•The Construction of Communalism…•2012

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• Democracy and Discontent

  Open Access•Atul Kohli•Democracy and discontent•1991

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• Religious Nationalism

  Peter Van Der Veer•Religious Nationalism•1994

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• In Defense of the Fragment

  Gyanendra Pandey•Representations•1992

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• Castes of Mind

  Nicholas B Dirks•Representations•1992

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