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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - What turns a neighbour into a threat What transforms a historical grievance into a justification for mob violence And how does a democracy - built on the foundations of equality and pluralism - begin to hollow itself out from within These are the questions at the centre of this landmark work by Ram Puniyani, one of India's most respected scholars of communalism and religious nationalism. Comprehensive in scope, rigorous in argument, and urgent in its relevance, this book offers the most complete account available of how divisive politics operates in India - where it comes from, how it sustains itself, and who it ultimately serves.Puniyani begins by examining how hatred is manufactured through what he calls 'social common sense' - the accumulated myths, biases, and distorted perceptions that prepare the ground for communal violence. He then moves systematically through the fault lines of Indian history: the contested narratives of ancient India and the origin of the Aryan race; the medieval period reread not as Hindu-Muslim conflict but as a rich civilisational synthesis; the colonial era and the making of Indian nationalism; and the tragedy of Kashmir, examined with rare nuance and historical honesty.The book devotes close, critical attention to the ideological formations that have shaped modern India - the rise of Hindu communalism through RSS and its affiliated organisations, the parallel history of Muslim communalism, and the forces that together produced Partition and its long aftermath. It chronicles communal violence in post-Independence India, the targeted persecution of Christian communities, and the renewed assault on Dalit aspirations in contemporary politics.Two chapters stand apart in their importance. The analysis of fundamentalism and women's rights exposes how religious nationalism across traditions is structurally dependent on the subordination of women - making gender equality and communal politics irreconcilable opposites. And the closing examination of the relationship between politics, religion, and terrorism situates India's experience within a global landscape, tracing the manufactured links between Islam and terror that have fed Islamophobia worldwide and intensified anti-minority prejudice in India.Throughout, Puniyani's argument remains consistent and clear: communalism is not a product of ancient hatreds. It is a modern political project, rooted in the interests of declining elites, sustained by institutional machinery, and directed against everyone for whom the Constitution of India represents a living promise - religious minorities, Dalits, women, Adivasis, and the poor.This book is essential reading for students of Indian history, politics, and society; for researchers working on nationalism, communalism, and human rights; and for every citizen who wants to understand - with clarity and without illusion - the forces shaping the republic today.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In a corner of Srinagar's Partap Park, a mother has stood in protest every month since August 1990, still waiting for news of the teenage son who never came home. Her story opens Beyond Silence: Women's Stories - and it is only the first of many the world was never meant to hear.Veteran journalist Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor spent decades reporting from Kashmir before going on to edit the BBC World Service's Urdu output in London. In this collection of interlinked true stories, she turns that reporter's eye, and a survivor's memory, on the women history keeps in the margins: the "half-widows" of Dardpura who cannot remarry because no one can confirm their husbands are dead; schoolgirls blinded by pellet guns; a Kunan Poshpora survivor who still cannot sleep through the night; Kashmiri Pandit families weighing an impossible homecoming; a journalist mother filing her last story before the August 2019 communications blackout cuts her off entirely.These are not statistics. They are women Mahjoor sat across from, in interrogation-centre waiting rooms, in refugee flats in London, in her own family. Some carry decades of grief with dry-eyed composure; others break their silence in one furious, unstoppable sentence. A few, like the Pandit activist fighting her own community's politicians, or the woman who arrives at a Women's Commission office asking only for hope, refuse to be anyone's symbol at all.Beyond Silence moves between the Kashmir Valley and the Kashmiri diaspora in Britain, between the militancy of the 1990s and the lockdowns of 2019 and 2020, tracing what three decades of conflict do to the women left holding a household, a memory, or a grief no one will officially acknowledge. Mahjoor, who also served as Chairperson of the Jammu & Kashmir State Commission for Women, writes with the authority of someone who has both investigated these stories and lived inside them.Unflinching, intimate, and often devastating, this is essential reading for anyone drawn to women's stories from conflict zones, South Asian history and politics, oral history, literary journalism, or the long, unresolved story of Kashmir itself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What turns a neighbour into a threat? What transforms a historical grievance into a justification for mob violence? And how does a democracy - built on the foundations of equality and pluralism - begin to hollow itself out from within?These are the questions at the centre of this landmark work by Ram Puniyani, one of India's most respected scholars of communalism and religious nationalism. Comprehensive in scope, rigorous in argument, and urgent in its relevance, this book offers the most complete account available of how divisive politics operates in India - where it comes from, how it sustains itself, and who it ultimately serves.Puniyani begins by examining how hatred is manufactured through what he calls 'social common sense' - the accumulated myths, biases, and distorted perceptions that prepare the ground for communal violence. He then moves systematically through the fault lines of Indian history: the contested narratives of ancient India and the origin of the Aryan race; the medieval period reread not as Hindu-Muslim conflict but as a rich civilisational synthesis; the colonial era and the making of Indian nationalism; and the tragedy of Kashmir, examined with rare nuance and historical honesty.The book devotes close, critical attention to the ideological formations that have shaped modern India - the rise of Hindu communalism through RSS and its affiliated organisations, the parallel history of Muslim communalism, and the forces that together produced Partition and its long aftermath. It chronicles communal violence in post-Independence India, the targeted persecution of Christian communities, and the renewed assault on Dalit aspirations in contemporary politics.Two chapters stand apart in their importance. The analysis of fundamentalism and women's rights exposes how religious nationalism across traditions is structurally dependent on the subordination of women - making gender equality and communal politics irreconcilable opposites. And the closing examination of the relationship between politics, religion, and terrorism situates India's experience within a global landscape, tracing the manufactured links between Islam and terror that have fed Islamophobia worldwide and intensified anti-minority prejudice in India.Throughout, Puniyani's argument remains consistent and clear: communalism is not a product of ancient hatreds. It is a modern political project, rooted in the interests of declining elites, sustained by institutional machinery, and directed against everyone for whom the Constitution of India represents a living promise - religious minorities, Dalits, women, Adivasis, and the poor.This book is essential reading for students of Indian history, politics, and society; for researchers working on nationalism, communalism, and human rights; and for every citizen who wants to understand - with clarity and without illusion - the forces shaping the republic today. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In a corner of Srinagar's Partap Park, a mother has stood in protest every month since August 1990, still waiting for news of the teenage son who never came home. Her story opens Beyond Silence: Women's Stories - and it is only the first of many the world was never meant to hear.Veteran journalist Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor spent decades reporting from Kashmir before going on to edit the BBC World Service's Urdu output in London. In this collection of interlinked true stories, she turns that reporter's eye, and a survivor's memory, on the women history keeps in the margins: the "half-widows" of Dardpura who cannot remarry because no one can confirm their husbands are dead; schoolgirls blinded by pellet guns; a Kunan Poshpora survivor who still cannot sleep through the night; Kashmiri Pandit families weighing an impossible homecoming; a journalist mother filing her last story before the August 2019 communications blackout cuts her off entirely.These are not statistics. They are women Mahjoor sat across from, in interrogation-centre waiting rooms, in refugee flats in London, in her own family. Some carry decades of grief with dry-eyed composure; others break their silence in one furious, unstoppable sentence. A few, like the Pandit activist fighting her own community's politicians, or the woman who arrives at a Women's Commission office asking only for hope, refuse to be anyone's symbol at all.Beyond Silence moves between the Kashmir Valley and the Kashmiri diaspora in Britain, between the militancy of the 1990s and the lockdowns of 2019 and 2020, tracing what three decades of conflict do to the women left holding a household, a memory, or a grief no one will officially acknowledge. Mahjoor, who also served as Chairperson of the Jammu & Kashmir State Commission for Women, writes with the authority of someone who has both investigated these stories and lived inside them.Unflinching, intimate, and often devastating, this is essential reading for anyone drawn to women's stories from conflict zones, South Asian history and politics, oral history, literary journalism, or the long, unresolved story of Kashmir itself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The India of ancient philosophy, moon missions, and Silicon Valley software engineers. That India the world celebrates, invests in, and admires. But there is another India - where identical CVs with different surnames get different responses, where a man can be pulled off a horse on his wedding day by a mob that cannot tolerate his dignity, where workers die in sewers because a centuries-old assignment of labour has never truly been revoked.This is caste. Not as folklore. Not as history. As the present tense.And it has not stayed in India. It has followed its people to American workplaces, British factory floors, and North American universities. California passed a law against caste discrimination in 2023. The world is beginning to notice - slowly, reluctantly, and far too late.Ninety years ago, a man decided that later was not acceptable.Born in 1891 into a community placed not at the bottom of the social order but beyond its edges entirely, B. R. Ambedkar went on to study at Columbia and the London School of Economics, then returned to draft India's Constitution - building into it the most ambitious equality guarantees the post-colonial world had seen. In 1936, he wrote a speech so dangerous that the organisation which invited him cancelled their entire conference rather than let him speak. He published it himself. That speech was Annihilation of Caste.The fact that much of the world knows India's growth rate but not Ambedkar's name is itself a form of the problem he spent his life solving.This book holds Ambedkar's arguments directly against the India of 2026 - a country that has placed his statue on almost every street while quietly dismantling the architecture he built. It does not handle him gently. It spends as much time on the failures of the movement that claims him as on the forces that oppose him.Ambedkar built the tools. What we have done with what he left is the real question this book is sitting with. The answer is not comfortable. Neither, for that matter, was he. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What turns a neighbour into a threat? What transforms a historical grievance into a justification for mob violence? And how does a democracy - built on the foundations of equality and pluralism - begin to hollow itself out from within?These are the questions at the centre of this landmark work by Ram Puniyani, one of India's most respected scholars of communalism and religious nationalism. Comprehensive in scope, rigorous in argument, and urgent in its relevance, this book offers the most complete account available of how divisive politics operates in India - where it comes from, how it sustains itself, and who it ultimately serves.Puniyani begins by examining how hatred is manufactured through what he calls 'social common sense' - the accumulated myths, biases, and distorted perceptions that prepare the ground for communal violence. He then moves systematically through the fault lines of Indian history: the contested narratives of ancient India and the origin of the Aryan race; the medieval period reread not as Hindu-Muslim conflict but as a rich civilisational synthesis; the colonial era and the making of Indian nationalism; and the tragedy of Kashmir, examined with rare nuance and historical honesty.The book devotes close, critical attention to the ideological formations that have shaped modern India - the rise of Hindu communalism through RSS and its affiliated organisations, the parallel history of Muslim communalism, and the forces that together produced Partition and its long aftermath. It chronicles communal violence in post-Independence India, the targeted persecution of Christian communities, and the renewed assault on Dalit aspirations in contemporary politics.Two chapters stand apart in their importance. The analysis of fundamentalism and women's rights exposes how religious nationalism across traditions is structurally dependent on the subordination of women - making gender equality and communal politics irreconcilable opposites. And the closing examination of the relationship between politics, religion, and terrorism situates India's experience within a global landscape, tracing the manufactured links between Islam and terror that have fed Islamophobia worldwide and intensified anti-minority prejudice in India.Throughout, Puniyani's argument remains consistent and clear: communalism is not a product of ancient hatreds. It is a modern political project, rooted in the interests of declining elites, sustained by institutional machinery, and directed against everyone for whom the Constitution of India represents a living promise - religious minorities, Dalits, women, Adivasis, and the poor.This book is essential reading for students of Indian history, politics, and society; for researchers working on nationalism, communalism, and human rights; and for every citizen who wants to understand - with clarity and without illusion - the forces shaping the republic today. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…