Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia

William Gould (University of Leeds)

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Cambridge University Press
05 December 2011

Asian history; Colonialism & imperialism; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict

This is one of the first single-author comparisons of different South Asian states around the theme of religious conflict. Based on new research and syntheses of the literature on 'communalism', it argues that religious conflict in this region in the modern period was never simply based on sectarian or theological differences or the clash of civilizations. Instead, the book proposes that the connection between religious radicalism and everyday violence relates to the actual (and perceived) weaknesses of political and state structures. For some, religious and ethnic mobilisation has provided a means of protest, where representative institutions failed. For others, it became a method of dealing with an uncertain political and economic future. For many it has no concrete or deliberate function, but has effectively upheld social stability, paternalism and local power, in the face of globalisation and the growing aspirations of the region's most underprivileged citizens.

By: William Gould (University of Leeds)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 610g
ISBN: 9780521879491
ISBN 10: 0521879493
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 05 December 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: community and conflict in South Asia; 2. Building spheres of community: 1860s–1910s; 3. Transforming spheres of community: the post First World War world; 4. Nationalising spheres of community: anti-colonialism and religious politics; 5. The 1940s, state transformation, community and conflict; 6. National integrity and pluralism, 1947–1967; 7. The decades of transformation: 1970s and 1980s; 8. The resurgence of religious nationalism: 1990 to the present.

William Gould is Senior Lecturer in Indian History at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Hindu Nationalism and the Language of Politics in Late Colonial India (2004) and Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India: Society and the State, 1930s–1960s (2010).

Reviews for Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia

'Gould's magnificent tour d'horizon provides a very comprehensive and insightful account of religion and conflict in South Asia, straddling the colonial and postcolonial periods. The author has achieved an ideal combination of depth of analysis with breadth of coverage, weaving his way through some of the major academic debates in the field. The book will, no doubt, become an authoritative text for the study of this important subject.' Nandini Gooptu, University of Oxford