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100			_aChandra, Bipan
245		0	_aCommunalism in modern india
260			_aNew Delhi _bVikas publishing house _c1984
300			_a363p.
520			_aThis volume analyses the essential features of communalism and the reasons for its growth in modern India. The author seeks to understand and interpret, and expose, communalism for what it is. He further seeks to determine its roots and social functions during the phase of its birth and growth in the colonial period and why it resulted in the partition of the country. In this process, against the backdrop of the freedom movement, the volume brings to light those aspects of India's social, economic, political and cultural life which were responsible for the growth of communalism. Based on wide-ranging scholarship, the study also examines the role of British imperial policy in fostering communalism, which ultimately attained uncontrollable, monstrous proportions. The author firmly rejects the prevalent notion that communalism was the logical and inevitable product of Indian historical development. On the other hand, he emphasises that communalism was not a remnant of the past nor was it a historical accident. He contends that it was a modern social and political phenomenon that could have been controlled and even eradicated if certain social, political and ideological conditions had been met. This volume should prove to be of great value to those involved in understanding and combating communalism, as well as the related phenomena of casteism, regionalism and linguism.
650			_aSocial science
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