Perspectives on Violence and Othering in India

- Preface

- Introduction: Contestations of identity in multicultural societies  R.C.Tripathi

- Understanding Violence Ramashray Roy

- Free Speech, Violence, and the State Alok Rai

- Between Revenge and Reconciliation: The Significance of Truth Commissions Rajeev Bhargava

- Right Choices and Violence: A Gendered Perspective

- Roop Rekha Verma

- Gender and Violence in the Indian Context: A Study of the History of Gendered Violence and Responses of Women Activists in India Urvashi Butalia

- Belonging/Unbelonging to the Nation Shail Mayaram

- The Climate of Violence and the Concern for Communal Harmony Yogesh Atal

- Telling the Story of Communal Conflicts in South Asia: Interim Report on a Personal Search to Define Myths Ashish Nandy

- Group and Individual-Level Determinants of Collective Violence: Social Psychological Aspects of Hindu-Muslim Riots R. Barry Ruback & Purnima Singh

- The aftermath of violence: Rebuilding relations within and across communities Rowena Robinson

- Violence of Silence: 'Police Action' in Hyderabad and its Aftermath Vinod K. Jairath and Huma R. Kidwai

- The Making of a Violent Indian Society A.K. Dasgupta

- Identity, activism and political violence: psychosocial perspective on Kashmiri militants Shobna Sonpar

R.C. Tripathi is a former Director and Professor, G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad; Professor and Head, Center of Advanced Study in Psychology, University of Allahabad; and Director, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Allahabad. Presently, he is National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. He is on the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Psychology, World Psychology, Psychological Studies, Indian Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. He is the editor-in-chief of Psychology and Developing Societies (1990-2002, 2011 to the present). During his long and distinguished academic career, Professor Tripathi has been a senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Michigan, member of the University Grants Commission, India, and member of the Indian Council for Social Science Research. He has published five volumes and numerous papers in edited volumes, besides numerous articles in journals.

Purnima Singh is Professor of Psychology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Earlier, she had been Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad. She is also the current President of the National Academy of Psychology, India and Executive Committee Member of the Asian Association of Social Psychology, as well as Regional Representative, South Asia, of the International Associa