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PAUL R. BRASS is Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has published numerous books and articles on comparative and South Asian politics, ethnic politics, and collective violence.
His work has been based on extensive field research in India during numerous visits since 1961. His most recent books are The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (2003), Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence (1997); Riots and Pogroms (1996); and The Politics of India Since Independence, 2nd ed. (1994).
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
2003: The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Pp. 476
2002: Competing Nationalisms in South Asia: Essays for Asghar Ali Engineer. Ed. with Achin Vanaik. Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
1997: Theft of an Idol:Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Pp. 298
1996: Riots and Pogroms. London and New York: Macmillan and NYU Press. Pp. 252
1994: The Politics of India Since Independence, 2nd edition, vol. iv:i of the New Cambridge History of
India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 403
1991: Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and
Comparison. New Delhi and Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Pp. 358.
1990: The Politics of India Since Independence,
vol. iv:i of the New Cambridge History of India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 357
1987: The Indian National Congress and Indian Society, 1885-1985: Ideology, Social Structure, and Political Dominance (with Francis Robinson). New Delhi: Chanakya Press. Pp. 480.
1985: Ethnic Groups and the State. London: Croom Helm. Pp. 341.
1985: Caste, Faction, and Party in Indian Politics, Vol. II: Election Studies. New Delhi: Chanakya Press. Pp. 325.
1984: Caste, Faction, and Party in Indian Politics, Vol. I: Faction and Party. New Delhi: Chanakya Press. Pp. 339.
1982: Science, Politics, and the Agricultural Revolution in Asia (with Robert S. Anderson, Edwin Levy, and Barrie M. Morrison). Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. 512 pp.
1974: Language, Religion, and Politics in North India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. 467 pp.
1973: Radical Politics in South Asia (with Marcus Franda). Cambridge: The MIT Press. 449 pp.
1965: Factional Politics in an Indian State: The Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh. Berkeley, University of California. 262 pp.
SELECTED ARTICLES
2004: "Development of an Institutionalised Riot System in Meerut City, 1961 to 1982," ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY (October 30, 2004), pp. 4839-4848.
2004: "Elite interests, popular passions, and social power in the language politics of India," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 27 (No. 3) May 2004, pp. 353-375.
2004: "Muslims in Hindu Nationalist India," Center Conversations (April 2004).
2003: "The Partition of India and Retributive Genocide in the Punjab, 1946-47: Means, Methods, and Purposes," Journal of Genocide Research (2003), 5(1), 71-101.
2003: "Review Article: Rulers of India," Economic Development and Cultural Change, 51: 2 (January 2003), 523-28.
2002: âIndia, Myron Weiner, and the Political Science of Development,â Economic and Political Weekly, XXXVII, No. 29 (July 20-26, 2002), 3026-40.
2000: âThe Strong State and the Fear of Disorder,â in Francine R. Frankel, et al. (eds.), Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy (New Delhi: Oxford University Press). Pp. 60-88
1984: "National Power and Local Politics in India: A Twenty-Year Perspective," Modern Asian Studies, XVIII, No. 1 (February, 1984), 89-118.
1968: "Coalition Politics in North India," The American Political Science Review, LXII (December, 1968), 1174-1191.
BOOK REVIEWS
2003: "The World's Largest Hypocrisies"; Review of The Maverick Republic: Thirty Years of Coverage by Jawid Laiq; Roli Books, New Delhi, 2000.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2004: Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide in Contemporary India: From Partition to the Present.
Click here for full text of "The Partition of India and retributive genocide in the Punjab, 1946-47: means, methods, and purposes."
Click here for full text of my review, "The World's Largest Hypocrisies."
Click here for full text my review article, "Rulers of India."
Click here for full text of "India, Myron Weiner, and the Political Science of Development."
Selected Works
Articles and Essays
Collective Violence, Human Rights, and the Politics of Curfew
A consideration of the consequences of curfew restrictions for the populations affected by them and the human rights issues raised by extended and punitive curfew restrictions, with special attention to India.
Victims, Heroes, or Martyrs? Partition and the Problem of Memorialization in Contemporary Sikh History
Discusses the problems of memorialization faced by religious/ethnic communities whose members have been subjected to large-scale, traumatic violence.
Review Symposium: The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India by Paul R. Brass
Reviews of my book by Thomas Blom Hansen, A. R. Momin, and Roger Petersen, with my response.
Indian Secularism in Practice
Text of article published in the INDIAN JOURNAL OF SECULARISM, Vol. 9 No. 1 (Jan-Mar 2006)
Biographies of Indian political personalities: Indira Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan, Vallabhbhai Patel, and Lal Bahadur Shastri
Biographies of Indira Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan, Vallabhbhai Patel, and Lal Bahadur Shastri in the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Development of an Institutionalised Riot System in Meerut City, 1961 to 1982
Text of article published in the ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY (October 30, 2004).
Elite interests, popular passions, and social power in the language politics of India
Text of article published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 27 (No. 3) May 2004, pp. 353-375.
"The Body as Symbol in the Production of Hindu-Muslim violence"
Chapter 1 in Ravinder Kaur (ed.), Religion, Violence and Political Mobilisation in South Asia (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2005), pp. 46-68.
Coalition Politics in North India
Text of article published in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Dec., 1968), 1174-1191.
National Power and Local Politics in India: A Twenty-Year Perspective
Text of article published in Modern Asian Studies, XVIII, No. 1 (February, 1984), 89-118.
Muslims in Hindu Nationalist India
Transcript of a discussion with Asghar Ali Engineer at the Center for Ethics and Public Policy, Washington, D. C., held on January 12, 2004
The Gujarat Pogrom of 2002
Analysis of the killings and destruction in the Indian state of Gujarat after February 27, 2002.
Foucault Steals Political Science
Analysis of Foucault's ideas concerning power, knowledge, governing, and governance.
Books
Forms of Collective Violence: Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide in Modern India
This collection of essays focus on the various forms of collective violence that have occurred in India during the past six decades, which include riots, pogroms, and genocide.
The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India
Explains the persistence of Hindu-Muslim rioting in India.
Theft of an Idol
Narratives of incidents of collective violence.
Riots and Pogroms
Case studies of collective violence in the twentieth century.
The Politics of India Since Independence
Second edition, covering Indian politics and political economy from 1947 to 1992.
Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison
Comparative and theoretical studies of ethnic groups and nationalities in India and the Soviet Union.
Ethnic Groups and the State
Comparative studies in ethnic conflict and the interaction of ethnic identity and the state.
Language, Religion, and Politics in North India
History and analysis of the politics of language and religious movements in northern India,
Factional Politics in an Indian State
The first major study of local politics in post-Independence India.
Conference papers
Corruption and Anti-Corruption on the Eve of Indian Independence
Prepared for the Panel on âCorruption as Practice and Discourse in Indiaâ at the Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 19-22, 2006
Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide in Contemporary India: From Partition to the Present
Prepared for the Hiroshima Peace Institute Conference on Comparative Research into Genocide and Mass Violence, Hiroshima, Japan, March 22-26, 2004)
On the Study of Riots,Pogroms, and Genocide
Methodology and ideology in the analysis of forms of collective violence
PAUL R. BRASS is Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has published numerous books and articles on comparative and South Asian politics, ethnic politics, and collective violence.
His work has been based on extensive field research in India during numerous visits since 1961. His most recent books are The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (2003), Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence (1997); Riots and Pogroms (1996); and The Politics of India Since Independence, 2nd ed. (1994).
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
2003: The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Pp. 476
2002: Competing Nationalisms in South Asia: Essays for Asghar Ali Engineer. Ed. with Achin Vanaik. Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
1997: Theft of an Idol:Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Pp. 298
1996: Riots and Pogroms. London and New York: Macmillan and NYU Press. Pp. 252
1994: The Politics of India Since Independence, 2nd edition, vol. iv:i of the New Cambridge History of
India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 403
1991: Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and
Comparison. New Delhi and Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Pp. 358.
1990: The Politics of India Since Independence,
vol. iv:i of the New Cambridge History of India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 357
1987: The Indian National Congress and Indian Society, 1885-1985: Ideology, Social Structure, and Political Dominance (with Francis Robinson). New Delhi: Chanakya Press. Pp. 480.
1985: Ethnic Groups and the State. London: Croom Helm. Pp. 341.
1985: Caste, Faction, and Party in Indian Politics, Vol. II: Election Studies. New Delhi: Chanakya Press. Pp. 325.
1984: Caste, Faction, and Party in Indian Politics, Vol. I: Faction and Party. New Delhi: Chanakya Press. Pp. 339.
1982: Science, Politics, and the Agricultural Revolution in Asia (with Robert S. Anderson, Edwin Levy, and Barrie M. Morrison). Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. 512 pp.
1974: Language, Religion, and Politics in North India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. 467 pp.
1973: Radical Politics in South Asia (with Marcus Franda). Cambridge: The MIT Press. 449 pp.
1965: Factional Politics in an Indian State: The Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh. Berkeley, University of California. 262 pp.
SELECTED ARTICLES
2004: "Development of an Institutionalised Riot System in Meerut City, 1961 to 1982," ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY (October 30, 2004), pp. 4839-4848.
2004: "Elite interests, popular passions, and social power in the language politics of India," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 27 (No. 3) May 2004, pp. 353-375.
2004: "Muslims in Hindu Nationalist India," Center Conversations (April 2004).
2003: "The Partition of India and Retributive Genocide in the Punjab, 1946-47: Means, Methods, and Purposes," Journal of Genocide Research (2003), 5(1), 71-101.
2003: "Review Article: Rulers of India," Economic Development and Cultural Change, 51: 2 (January 2003), 523-28.
2002: âIndia, Myron Weiner, and the Political Science of Development,â Economic and Political Weekly, XXXVII, No. 29 (July 20-26, 2002), 3026-40.
2000: âThe Strong State and the Fear of Disorder,â in Francine R. Frankel, et al. (eds.), Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy (New Delhi: Oxford University Press). Pp. 60-88
1984: "National Power and Local Politics in India: A Twenty-Year Perspective," Modern Asian Studies, XVIII, No. 1 (February, 1984), 89-118.
1968: "Coalition Politics in North India," The American Political Science Review, LXII (December, 1968), 1174-1191.
BOOK REVIEWS
2003: "The World's Largest Hypocrisies"; Review of The Maverick Republic: Thirty Years of Coverage by Jawid Laiq; Roli Books, New Delhi, 2000.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2004: Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide in Contemporary India: From Partition to the Present.
Click here for full text of "The Partition of India and retributive genocide in the Punjab, 1946-47: means, methods, and purposes."
Click here for full text of my review, "The World's Largest Hypocrisies."
Click here for full text my review article, "Rulers of India."
Click here for full text of "India, Myron Weiner, and the Political Science of Development."
Selected Works
Articles and Essays
Collective Violence, Human Rights, and the Politics of Curfew
A consideration of the consequences of curfew restrictions for the populations affected by them and the human rights issues raised by extended and punitive curfew restrictions, with special attention to India.
Victims, Heroes, or Martyrs? Partition and the Problem of Memorialization in Contemporary Sikh History
Discusses the problems of memorialization faced by religious/ethnic communities whose members have been subjected to large-scale, traumatic violence.
Review Symposium: The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India by Paul R. Brass
Reviews of my book by Thomas Blom Hansen, A. R. Momin, and Roger Petersen, with my response.
Indian Secularism in Practice
Text of article published in the INDIAN JOURNAL OF SECULARISM, Vol. 9 No. 1 (Jan-Mar 2006)
Biographies of Indian political personalities: Indira Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan, Vallabhbhai Patel, and Lal Bahadur Shastri
Biographies of Indira Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan, Vallabhbhai Patel, and Lal Bahadur Shastri in the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Development of an Institutionalised Riot System in Meerut City, 1961 to 1982
Text of article published in the ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY (October 30, 2004).
Elite interests, popular passions, and social power in the language politics of India
Text of article published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 27 (No. 3) May 2004, pp. 353-375.
"The Body as Symbol in the Production of Hindu-Muslim violence"
Chapter 1 in Ravinder Kaur (ed.), Religion, Violence and Political Mobilisation in South Asia (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2005), pp. 46-68.
Coalition Politics in North India
Text of article published in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Dec., 1968), 1174-1191.
National Power and Local Politics in India: A Twenty-Year Perspective
Text of article published in Modern Asian Studies, XVIII, No. 1 (February, 1984), 89-118.
Muslims in Hindu Nationalist India
Transcript of a discussion with Asghar Ali Engineer at the Center for Ethics and Public Policy, Washington, D. C., held on January 12, 2004
The Gujarat Pogrom of 2002
Analysis of the killings and destruction in the Indian state of Gujarat after February 27, 2002.
Foucault Steals Political Science
Analysis of Foucault's ideas concerning power, knowledge, governing, and governance.
Books
Forms of Collective Violence: Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide in Modern India
This collection of essays focus on the various forms of collective violence that have occurred in India during the past six decades, which include riots, pogroms, and genocide.
The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India
Explains the persistence of Hindu-Muslim rioting in India.
Theft of an Idol
Narratives of incidents of collective violence.
Riots and Pogroms
Case studies of collective violence in the twentieth century.
The Politics of India Since Independence
Second edition, covering Indian politics and political economy from 1947 to 1992.
Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison
Comparative and theoretical studies of ethnic groups and nationalities in India and the Soviet Union.
Ethnic Groups and the State
Comparative studies in ethnic conflict and the interaction of ethnic identity and the state.
Language, Religion, and Politics in North India
History and analysis of the politics of language and religious movements in northern India,
Factional Politics in an Indian State
The first major study of local politics in post-Independence India.
Conference papers
Corruption and Anti-Corruption on the Eve of Indian Independence
Prepared for the Panel on âCorruption as Practice and Discourse in Indiaâ at the Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 19-22, 2006
Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide in Contemporary India: From Partition to the Present
Prepared for the Hiroshima Peace Institute Conference on Comparative Research into Genocide and Mass Violence, Hiroshima, Japan, March 22-26, 2004)
On the Study of Riots,Pogroms, and Genocide
Methodology and ideology in the analysis of forms of collective violence