This book presents a radically new analysis of communalism along with nationalism and colonialism. It offers a new understanding of the construction of Indian society and politics in recent times by offering new theoretical cues to grasp their nature and dynamics. The new edition includes a new foreword.

• Foreword


• Preface to the Second Edition


• Preface to the First Edition


• Abbreviations


• Glossary
















• Afterword: Communalism after Communalism


• Appendix I


• Appendix II


• Bibliography


• Index