This study traces the circumstances that allowed the imagination of militant Hindu cultural and political identities in Lucknow between 1880 and 1930. It documents the efforts of men active in the public sphere to create a larger and more empowering role for themselves in the ci…
In ethnically heterogeneous states, the specter of ethnic competition, discord, and violence drives institutional design, shapes party formation, and impacts how citizens interact with one another. According to many scholars, ethnic identity crowds out other political affiliatio…
This dissertation examines the responses of the Muslim community in Meerut city, in western Uttar Pradesh, India, to the rise of militant Hindu nationalism and to the anti-Muslim violence that shook Meerut in April-May 1987. I show how Meerut Muslims engaged in adaptive economic…
This dissertation is a study of the critical role played by the Muslims of the United Provinces (UP) in the movement for the formation of Pakistan during the last decade of colonial rule in India. In this regard, it seeks to understand as to what Pakistan may have meant to the M…
Investigates the social contradictions, class forces and efforts at political organization that lay behind the powerful nationalist movement in Uttar Pradesh the 1920s and '30s.
With the demolition of the Babri Masjid and subsequent riots of the late 1980s and 1990s in Uttar Pradesh, the period that followed appeared relatively peaceful. Only at the turn of the century, India witnessed a strong wave of communalism in early 2000s. After the Godhra riots …
A study with particular reference to the Bharatiya Kisan Union, a peasant movement, and the Jat farmers of western Uttar Pradesh.
