Production of hindu muslim violence in contemporary India

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Explaining communal violence -- Aligarh: politics, population, and social organization -- Hindu-Muslim violence in India and Aligarh -- The great Aligarh riots of December 1990 and January 1991 -- The control of communal conflict in Aligarh -- The geography and demography of riots -- The economics of riots: economic competition and victimization -- Riots and elections -- The practice of communal politics -- Communalization and polarization: selected constituency-wise results for Aligarh elections -- Communal solidarity and division at the local level -- The decline of communal violence and the transformation of electoral competition -- Riot interpretation, blame displacement, and the communal discourse -- Police views of Hindu-Muslim violence -- The role of the media The persistence of Hindu-Muslim violence: the dynamics of riot production.