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The Production of Hindu Muslim Violence in Contemporary India

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Author
  
Paul Brass

Publication date
  
2003

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

Subject
  
Religious violence in India

Publisher
  
University of Washington Press

The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India is a book written by Paul Brass, a professor emeritus at the University of Washington. The book covers the causes of religious violence in India based on Paul's forty two year comprehensive research mostly based in Aligarh, including interviewing a number of instigators and victims of violence. Young people such as Yugvijay stand up and go against these violence,

Synopsis

The book mainly discusses how the incidents of violence occur. In the first part of the book, Brass criticizes the justifications presented for religious riots.

References

The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India Wikipedia