Aria Thaker's book review of Communal Violence: Causes and Responses by Irfan Engineer

The Economic and Political Weekly, Vol - XLVIII No. 49, December 07, 2013

The Origins of Communalism

by Aria Thaker
Aria Thaker (ariathaker@gmail.com) is with Davenport College, Yale University, United States.

Book Reviews

Issues of Communal Violence: Causes and Responses by Irfan Engineer (Mumbai: Institute for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution), 2013; pp 51, Rs 150.


In his Issues

Meena Menon reviews 'RIOT POLITICS — Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State'

The Hindu
Books » Reviews
November 26, 2013

The network that influences polls and politics

Meena Menon

RIOT POLITICS — Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State: Ward Berenschot; Rainlight, 7/16, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002. Rs. 495.


Towards the end of his book Ward Berenschot writes that riots provide politicians with an occasion to prove their usefulness to prospective voters

Book focuses on aspects behind communal violence in India

The Asian Age, September 25, 2013

Book focuses on aspects behind communal violence in India
by Javed Anand


Riot Politics: Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State
By Ward Berenschot
Rs. 495

How does one understand or explain recurring, gruesome communal violence in India? Ward Berenschot, author of Riot Politics: Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State, identifies six different

Colonial Cousins: Communalism and Nationalism in Modern India

From H-Net

Rakesh Batabyal. Communalism in Bengal: From Famine to Noakhali, 1943-1947. London: Thousand Oaks, 2005. 428 pp. $97.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7619-3335-9.

Reviewed by Anirudh Deshpande (Motilal Nehru College (E), University of Delhi)
Published on H-Asia (July, 2007)

Colonial Cousins: Communalism and Nationalism in Modern India

For readers unfamiliar with the terms in which modern