Title

Review: 'Hindu Muslim Riots'

Author(s)

Haimanti Roy, University of DaytonFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

8-2016

Publication Source

Journal of Asian Studies

Abstract

Communal violence in India, especially between Hindus and Muslims, have for long been the center of scholarly research. From the 1990s, historians, and anthropologists have innovatively analyzed colonial and Partition related riots to understand why and how they happened and the contextual development of communal identities. Political scientists have put forth thought-provoking paradigms of urban communal rioting in the wake of the Hindu Muslim riots of 1992 and 2002. All, it would seem, owe an intellectual debt to sociologist Richard Lambert’s much-cited dissertation of 1951, now published six decades later. Given that the publication is mostly an unchanged version of the dissertation (including the title), and the fact that Lambert was an eyewitness, of sorts, to the Partition riots of 1946-7, makes Hindu Muslim Riots a primary source.

Inclusive pages

864-865

ISBN/ISSN

0021-9118

Document Version

Postprint

Comments

This article has been published in a revised form in Journal of Asian Studies. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works.

Permission documentation on file.

Copyright

Copyright © 2016, The Association for Asian Studies, Inc.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Volume

75

Issue

3

eCommons Citation

Roy, Haimanti, "Review: 'Hindu Muslim Riots'" (2016). History Faculty Publications. 138.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/hst_fac_pub/138