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“There is peace here”: Managing communal relations in a town in central Gujarat, India
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posted on 2023-06-08, 11:46 authored by Carolyn HeitmeyerThis article describes the relations between Hindus and Muslims in a small town in central Gujarat following the massive violence against the Muslim minority community throughout many parts of the state between February and May 2002. While the ‘communal divide’ has become more pronounced following the 2002 attacks in many parts of the state as well as in the town in which the research was conducted, concerted efforts are made by members of both communities as a means of re-imposing a sense of ‘everyday peace’. As such, normative discourses presenting the 2002 violence as an aberration with respect to the state of local communal relations in the town represent a collective strategy of containing the tension and mutual suspicion which remain constant undercurrents in daily life. This article, moreover, explores the ongoing caste- and class-based social networks and interactions underlying public declarations of ‘everyday peace’ which have played a central role in, if not averting violence altogether, discouraging the development of further communal segregation and division in the aftermath of the 2002 attacks in the town.
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Journal of South Asian DevelopmentISSN
0973-1741Publisher
SAGE PublicationsPublisher URL
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1Volume
4Page range
103-120Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
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2012-06-14Usage metrics
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