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Editors and Contributors; Author Bionotes; Prologue; Part I Violence: Its Problematique; 1 Violence and the Other: Contestations in Multicultural Societies ; 1.1 Identity Contestations in India; 1.2 Identity Contestations and Multiculturalism; 1.3 Othering as a Process: The Other as a Product; 1.4 Psychological Construction of the Other; 1.5 "Purity" as the Basis of Otherness; 1.6 Ideology as the Basis of Otherness; 1.7 Mechanisms of Othering; 1.8 Types of Other; 1.9 Towards "Un"-Othering; References; 2 Understanding Violence ; References; 3 Free Speech, Violence and the State
4 The Climate of Violence and the Concern for Communal Harmony References; Part II Construction of the Other; 5 BelongingUnbelonging to the Nation ; References; 6 Violence and the Other in Hinduism and Islam: 1809 Lat Bhairon Riots of Banaras ; 6.1 Divide, Rule and Unify: Self-Other Dialectics of Violence; 6.2 Mimesis and War by Terror: Deconstructing the Scapegoat; 6.3 Marriage of Lat Bhairon and Ghazi Miyan: Sacrificial Syncretism; 6.4 Ghazi Miyan and Muharram: Sunni-Shia Reconciliation in India; 6.5 From I-Thou to We-They: Modernity Aggravates the Religious Divide
6.6 Lat Bhairon, Scapegoat of Lord of the Universe: The 1809 Banaras Riots6.7 Felling of the World Pillar: Islamic Fulfilment of Vedic Cosmogony?; 6.8 Sacrificial Violence in Abrahamic Tradition: Vedic Brain in Islamic Body?; References; Part III Contestations of Identities; 7 Group and Individual Level Determinants of Collective Violence: Socio-psychological Aspects of Hindu-Muslim Riots ; 7.1 Introduction to Collective Violence; 7.2 Structural Conditions; 7.3 Group Characteristics; 7.3.1 Behaviour in Groups; 7.3.2 Social Identity and Intergroup Relations; 7.3.3 Realistic Conflict
7.3.4 Groups that Are Unequal in Power7.4 Individual Differences in People that Engage in Riots; 7.5 Mixed-Level Explanations; 7.6 Application of the Socio-psychological Approach to Hindu-Muslim Riots; 7.7 Discussion; 7.7.1 Parallel Analyses; 7.7.2 Cross-Level Analysis; 7.7.3 Future Research; References; 8 Identity, Activism, and Political Violence: A Psychosocial Perspective on Kashmiri Militants ; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Background and Present Study; 8.2.1 Major Themes; Pre-militancy Period; Militancy Period; Post-militancy Period; References
9 Religious Violence and the "Developmental State" in Rajasthan 9.1 A Chronicle of Anti-christian Violence in Rajasthan; 9.2 The Political Economy of Tribal Society; 9.3 Christianity, Conversion and the Tribals in Rajasthan; 9.4 Religious Violence and the Politics of Hindu Nationalism; 9.5 The Tribal Encounters with Hindu Nationalism in Rajasthan; References; Part IV Towards Harmony and Peace; 10 Between Revenge and Reconciliation: The Significance of Truth Commissions ; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Distinctions Between Barbaric and Minimally Decent Society
4 The Climate of Violence and the Concern for Communal Harmony References; Part II Construction of the Other; 5 BelongingUnbelonging to the Nation ; References; 6 Violence and the Other in Hinduism and Islam: 1809 Lat Bhairon Riots of Banaras ; 6.1 Divide, Rule and Unify: Self-Other Dialectics of Violence; 6.2 Mimesis and War by Terror: Deconstructing the Scapegoat; 6.3 Marriage of Lat Bhairon and Ghazi Miyan: Sacrificial Syncretism; 6.4 Ghazi Miyan and Muharram: Sunni-Shia Reconciliation in India; 6.5 From I-Thou to We-They: Modernity Aggravates the Religious Divide
6.6 Lat Bhairon, Scapegoat of Lord of the Universe: The 1809 Banaras Riots6.7 Felling of the World Pillar: Islamic Fulfilment of Vedic Cosmogony?; 6.8 Sacrificial Violence in Abrahamic Tradition: Vedic Brain in Islamic Body?; References; Part III Contestations of Identities; 7 Group and Individual Level Determinants of Collective Violence: Socio-psychological Aspects of Hindu-Muslim Riots ; 7.1 Introduction to Collective Violence; 7.2 Structural Conditions; 7.3 Group Characteristics; 7.3.1 Behaviour in Groups; 7.3.2 Social Identity and Intergroup Relations; 7.3.3 Realistic Conflict
7.3.4 Groups that Are Unequal in Power7.4 Individual Differences in People that Engage in Riots; 7.5 Mixed-Level Explanations; 7.6 Application of the Socio-psychological Approach to Hindu-Muslim Riots; 7.7 Discussion; 7.7.1 Parallel Analyses; 7.7.2 Cross-Level Analysis; 7.7.3 Future Research; References; 8 Identity, Activism, and Political Violence: A Psychosocial Perspective on Kashmiri Militants ; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Background and Present Study; 8.2.1 Major Themes; Pre-militancy Period; Militancy Period; Post-militancy Period; References
9 Religious Violence and the "Developmental State" in Rajasthan 9.1 A Chronicle of Anti-christian Violence in Rajasthan; 9.2 The Political Economy of Tribal Society; 9.3 Christianity, Conversion and the Tribals in Rajasthan; 9.4 Religious Violence and the Politics of Hindu Nationalism; 9.5 The Tribal Encounters with Hindu Nationalism in Rajasthan; References; Part IV Towards Harmony and Peace; 10 Between Revenge and Reconciliation: The Significance of Truth Commissions ; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Distinctions Between Barbaric and Minimally Decent Society