Author: Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja
Title: Leveling Crowds : Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia
Description: Berkeley [CA], Univ. of California Press, (1996). orig. boards. 24x15cm, x,395 pp. Series: Comparative Studies in Religion & Society, 10.. Front fixed flyleaf torn. Good. ¶ Contents: Selected Sites of Conflict in South Asia: The Wider Context; Orientation & Objectives; The 1915 Sinhala Buddhist-Muslim Riots in Ceylon;Two Postindependence Ethnic Riots in Sri Lanka; Sikh Identity, Separation & Ethnic Conflict; Ethnic Conflict in Pakistan; Rethinking the Nature of Collective Violence: Some General Features of Ethnic Riots & Riot Crowds; The Routinization & Ritualization of Violence; Hindu Nationalism, the Ayodhya Campaign, & the Babri Masjid; Entering a Dark Continent: The Political Psychology of Crowds; Reconfiguring Le Bon & Durkheim on Crowds as Collectives; The Moral Economy of Collective Violence.

Keywords: Indian Social Movements, Communalism India, Communal Conflicts, Ethnic Nationalist, South Asia Conflict, Social Psychology, Crowd Crowds Riot, Collective Violence, Anthropology Riots, Religion Religious