Leveling Crowds
Subtitle: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society, 10)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 3, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780520206427
Subjects: Multicultural studies; Religious groups; Violence in Society; Riots; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Reference; ASIA; General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Crowds; Communalism; South Asia; Violence
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.