Hindu Fanaticism in British India: A Catalyst for Muslim Separatism?

Brass,Hindu-Muslim Violence

A Comparative Study of Religiocentrism among Christian, Muslim and Hindu Students in Tamil Nadu, India

Th is article presents a theoretical framework for religiocentrism that is suited to cross-religious comparisons between Christians, Muslims and Hindus. Religiocentrism is defined as the combination of positive attitudes toward the religious ingroup and negative attitudes toward religious outgroup(s). Empirical research proves the relevance of the construct ‘religiocentrism’ among Christian, Mu...

ONLINE APPENDIX IMPLICATIONS OF AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF CONFLICT: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India

1.1. Description of the Model. For the sake of exposition, we kept the discussion in the main text at a somewhat informal level. Here is a simple extension of the model in the paper which formalizes several issues mentioned there. We consider a specification in which any member of a group might become an attacker, or a victim, or enjoy peace. In each such situation, his “earnings” for that peri...

Muslim and Hindu Women's public and private behaviors: gender, family, and communalized politics in India.

Prior research on fundamentalist religious movements has focused attention on the complicated relationship among gender, family, and religion. Using data from a nationally representative survey of 30,000 Hindu and Muslim women, this study compares the daily public and private behaviors of women in India to examine how gender and family norms are shaped in the context of communalized identity po...

Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India