The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (2 Revised edition)

This is a radically new analysis of communalism along with nationalism and colonialism.

It is a part of a larger exercise aimed at understanding the construction of Indian society, and politics as a whole in recent times by challenging the conventional analysis of communalism and providing alternative theoretical cues to grasp its nature and dynamics.

The book also explores how nationalism and communalism are constructed out of shared as well as contested experiences, out of common and mutually contradictory visions and struggles.

This study is a milestone in contemporary debates on nationalist politics and modern political communities.

Given the worldwide resurgence of religious nationalism and communalism, this new edition with a preface and afterword, will interest all the people concerned with problem of communalism in the contemporary world.