- Description
- 1 online resource (357 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Summary
- This book is a pioneering study of when and why Hindu Nationalists have engaged in discrimination and violence against minorities in contemporary India. Amrita Basu asks why the incidence and severity of violence differs significantly across Indian states, within states, and through time. Contrary to many predictions, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has neither consistently engaged in anti-minority violence nor been compelled by the centrifugal pressures of democracy to become a centrist party. Rather, the national BJP has alternated between moderation and militancy. Hindu nationalist violence has been conjunctural, determined by relations among its own party, social movement organization, and state governments, and on the character of opposition states, parties and movements. This study accords particular importance to the role of social movements in precipitating anti-minority violence. It calls for a broader understanding of social movements and a greater appreciation of their relationship to political parties.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics.
- Subject
- Bharatiya Janata Party
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 May 2016).
- OCLC
- CR9781316105719
- Author
Basu, Amrita, author.
- Title
Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India / Amrita Basu.
- Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics.
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- Other Form:
Print version: 9781107089631