Ethnic Conflict & Civic Life - Hindus & Muslims in India 2e : Hindus and Muslims in India

Preface to the Second Edition ix Preface xiii Part I Arguments and Theories Introduction 3(20) Why Civil Society? Ethnic Conflict and the Existing Traditions of Inquiry 23(32) Part II The National Level Competing National Imaginations 55(32) Hindu-Muslim Riots, 1950--1995: The National Picture 87(32) Part III Local Variations Aligarh and Calicut: Internal and External Cleavages Aligarh and Calicut: Civic Life and Its Political Foundations 119(30) Vicious and Virtuous Circles 149(22) Hyderabad and Lucknow: Elite Integration Versus Mass Integration Princely Resistance to Civil Society 171(30) Hindu Nationalists as Bridge Builders? 201(18) Ahmedabad and Surat: How Civic Institutions Decline Gandhi and Civil Society 219(20) Decline of a Civic Order and Communal Violence 239(23) Endogeneity? Of Causes and Consequences 262(19) Part IV Conclusions Ethnic Conflict, the State, and Civil Society 281(20) Appendix A Questionnaire for the Project on Hindu-Muslim Relations in India 301(8) Appendix B Data Entry Protocol for the Riot Database 309(5) Appendix C Regression Results: Hindu-Muslim Riots, 1950--1995 314(5) Notes 319(54) Index 373