Ethnic conflict & civic life
A review essay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16775911 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonah Blank (0000-0002-9575-7553, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 97-112 |
| Publication date | 2003-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | India Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1473-6489 • E-ISSN: 1557-3036 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14736480412331307042 |
| OpenAlex | W2037814610 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Academic discourse on ethnic conflict in India has, all too often, amounted to little more than platitudes, hand-wringing, and blame-casting. Far too seldom do we see an investigation of the topic that is firmly grounded in both theory and on-the-ground data collection: a soberly argued, articulately presented work examining the local circumstances that make Hindu–Muslim conflict more or less likely to flare into bloodshed. Even apart from the added timeliness produced by last year's conflagration in Gujarat, Ashutosh Varshney's new book, Ethnic Conflict & Civic Life: Hindus & Muslims in India, is a welcome contribution to a field sorely in need of such creative, clear-headed, and academically rigorous thinking. It provides the opportunity, moreover, to review the existing schools of thought attempting to explain ethnic conflict, and highlight their inadequacies as a comprehensive framework for analysis
Blame · Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Political economy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Psychology · Social and Economic Development in India · Social Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2007 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |