Sectarian Violence In India

India has witnessed communal clashes between Hindu and Muslim groups. Commentators and social scientists in India have been understandably concerned with these clashes, as well as the peculiar nature of such communal violence in the country. Violent incidents continue to rock the nation, making this field a particularly important area of study. sectarian violence in India offers a cumulative account of social Science research on the crucially important subject of communal violence from the late 1960s until about 2015. It brings together a critical selection of articles on sectarian violence in the post-Independence era from the economic and political weekly, a journal that has best represented social scientists over the years and is the single largest source of studies on this subject.