The Deadly Embrace: Religion, Politics, and Violence in India and Pakistan, 1947-2002Thus, the book makes important contributions towards both the provision of empirical data and the theory of the interconnection between religion, politics and violence on the subcontinent."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Contents
Partition and the Absence of Communal Violence | 16 |
Out of Control? Partition Violence and the State | 36 |
The State and Religious Diversity | 60 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Deadly Embrace: Religion, Politics, and Violence in India and Pakistan, 1947-2002 Subcontinent divided The subcontinent divided : a new beginning |
| Editor | Ian Talbot |
| Contributors | Coventry University. Centre for South Asian Studies, Balliol College (University of Oxford) |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2007 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0195473647, 9780195473643 |
| Length | 191 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / Asia / South / General |
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