Title: State, community and neighbourhood in princely North India, c. 1900-1950 /
Authors: Copland, Ian, 1943-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Communalism India History; Religion and politics India History; India History
Abstract: "Previous scholarship on communalism in modern South Asia has focused almost exclusively on colonial British India; or on the contemporary Indian scene - on the post-1980 resurgence of communal rioting associated with the politicking of the Hindu Right. Copland's book adds a new dimension to this literature by factoring in the roughly 20 per cent of the population of colonial India that lived in the erstwhile Indian princely states."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: 1. Introduction -- Unmasking the other -- Patterns of riots -- The problem -- The argument -- 2. Islands in the storm -- A question of numbers? -- The states as backwaters -- Communitas -- Rājadharma -- Princes and publics -- 3. Metamorphosis -- Cracks in the façade -- The price of progress -- The coming of the missionaries -- The coming of the politicians -- Unholy alliances -- Rājadharma revisited -- 4. The further shores of partition -- Imperial sunset -- Dreams and conspiracies -- The killing fields -- The price of survival -- 5. The new India -- Bluster on the right -- The Union strikes back -- Starting over -- 6. Conclusion -- Communalism revisited -- Legacies.