Reflections on Community Conflicts and the State in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3634608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amrita Basu (0000-0001-5005-3803, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 391-397 |
| Publication date | 1997-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2646243 |
| OpenAlex | W1978067902 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 8 |
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
Caste · Chatterjee · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Secularism · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0.26 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2008 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |