Warriors in Politics
Subtitle: Hindu Nationalism, Violence, and the Shiv Sena in India
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780813336992
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Nationalism; Political activism; Political parties; Political structures: democracy; Ethnic Politics; Political Discontent And Violence; History; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; History: World; Conflict Resolution; General; Violence in Society; Asia - General; Discrimination & Racism; Political; Bombay; Communalism; India; Political violence; Shiv Sena; Violence
Description: "In theorizing about the link between violence and the politics of nationalism, most scholars have rejected the idea that primordial hatred between different ethnic and/or religious groups residing in close proximity will inevitably lead to conflict and the call for an ethnically/religiously pure nation-state. Rather, conflict tends to occur when humans manipulate social, political, economic, and ideological factors to construct nationalist identities and movements.

The "manipulation" perspective is the underlying theoretical framework of Warriors in Politics which uses the Mumbai riots of December 1992 and January 1993 to analyze the brand of nationalism created and disseminated by the Indian political party Shiv Sena."--BOOK JACKET.