Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life Hindus and Muslims in India Ashutosh Varshney

This work, updated for the paperback edition, examines how civic ties between Hindus and Muslims in different Indian cities serve to contain, or even prevent, ethnic violence. It should be of interest to South Asian scholars and policymakers as well as to those studying multiethnic societies in other areas of the world.

Ashutosh Varshney is associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan.

"An outstanding work of social science, one of the most important studies of ethnic violence to appear in many years." Samuel P. Huntington, author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order "An important breakthrough in understanding the problem of ethnic conflict globally." Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, as quoted in the New York Times "A lasting contribution to our understanding of how to tackle the roots of communal violence in India." Radha Kumar, Foreign Affairs