Leveling Crowds
Subtitle: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 3, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780520200029
Subjects: Multicultural studies; Religious groups; Violence in Society; Political Anthropology; Ethnic Politics; Social Science; Sociology; South Asia; ASIA; Riots; Anthropology - General; Asia - India & South Asia; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Communalism; Ethnic Studies - General; Crowds
First sentence: A somber reality and disillusionment of our epoch, which emerged from the ashes of World War II, is that although there have been successes in the push toward development and modernization, eradication of disease, and the spread of literacy, economic and political development programs have generated and stimulated, whether by collusion or in reaction, in good faith and poor anticipation, massive civil war and gruesome interracial and interethnic bloodshed.