Paul R. Brass is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Washington. He is the author of many books including Theft of an Idol and Riots and Pogroms.

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Maps, Figures, and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part I / Introduction
1. Explaining Communal Violence
Part II / Communal Riots in India and Aligarh
2. Aligarh: Politics, Population, and Social Organization
3. Hindu-Muslim Violence in India and Aligarh
4. The Great Aligarh Riots of December 1990 and January 1991
5. The Control of Communal Conflict in Aligarh
Part III / Demographic, Social, and Economic Factors in the Production of Riots
6. The Geography and Demography of Riots
7. The Economics of Riots: Economic Competition and Victimization
Part IV / Riots and the Political Process
8. Riots and Elections
9. The Practice of Communal Politics
10. Communalization and Polarization: Selected Constituency-Wise Results for Aligarh Elections
11. Communal Solidarity and Division at the Local Level
12. The Decline of Communal Violence and the Transformation of Electoral Competition
Part V / The Process of Blame Displacement
13. Riot Interpretation, Blame Displacement, and the Communal Discourse
14. Police Views of Hindu-Muslim Violence
15. The Role of the Media
Part IV / Conclusion
16. The Persistence of Hindu-Muslim Violence: The Dynamics of Riot Production
Postscript: Aligarh and Gujarat
Appendices
Notes
Index
Index of Mohallas