Ashutosh Varshney

India in the Era of Economic Reforms

Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India

Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India

Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India

Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India

Beyond Urban Bias

India and the Politics of Developing Countries: Essays in Memory of Myron Weiner

India and the Politics of Developing Countries: Essays in Memory of Myron Weiner

India and the Politics of Developing Countries: Essays in Memory of Myron Weiner

`The essays in this volume will be welcomed by many political scientists as well as more lay observers of the Indian political situation. It is a welcome addition to our understanding of the evolution of political forces in independent India and deserves serious reading' - Australian Journal of Poli...

Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

What happens to the rural folk--to their power and economic well-being--when development takes place in a democratic framework? Focusing on India where, unlike most of the developing world, a democratic system has flourished for four decades, this book investigates how the rural sector uses its numb...

Midnight's Diaspora: Critical Encounters with Salman Rushdie

This important collection of essays and interviews brings together a distinguished group of critics and commentators, including Rushdie himself, to explore the political and cultural contexts of Rushdie's novels. While each of the essays offer a distinct and often highly original take on Rushdie and...

Collective Violence in Indonesia

Since the end of Suharto's so-called New Order (1966-1998) in Indonesia and the eruption of vicious group violence, a number of questions have engaged the minds of scholars and other observers. How widespread is the group violence? What forms - ethnic, religious, economic - has it primarily taken? H...

Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India

This work, updated for the paperback edition, examines how civic ties between Hindus and Muslims in different Indian cities serve to contain, or even prevent, ethnic violence. It should be of interest to South Asian scholars and policymakers as well as to those studying multiethnic societies in othe...

Battles Half Won: India's Improbable Democracy

In this lively collection of essays, Ashutosh Varshney analyses the deepening of Indian democracy since 1947 and the challenges this has created. The overview traces the forging and consolidation of India s improbable democracy. Other essays examine themes ranging from Hindu nationalism, caste polit...

Beyond Urban Bias

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Analyzing collective violence in Indonesia: an overview.(Country overview): An article from: Journal of East Asian Studies

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Ashutosh Varshney

Ashutosh Varshney is a political scientist specializing in ethnic and religious conflict in South Asia. He is Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the...