Author's Keywords: Ethnic Violence, State Formation, Colonialism, Post-Colonial States, Governance, India	Convention All Academic Convention is the premier solution for your association's abstract management solutions needs. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Desai, Manali. "Weak States, Strong States?: Post-Colonial Governance, Weak Class, and Strong Ethnicity in India" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p239718_index.html>

Desai, M. , 2008-07-31 "Weak States, Strong States?: Post-Colonial Governance, Weak Class, and Strong Ethnicity in India" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p239718_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Institutionalist explanations of modern ethnic violence tend to emphasize the weakness of the state or the failure of civic institutions to prevent violence. Without adequate specification of mechanisms, however, this cluster of explanations risks becoming tautological. Moreover, restricting explanation to proximate temporalities may at times be misleading. This article proposes a historical turn in explanations of ethnic violence, focusing on how legacies of state formation and embedded political networks promote the possibility that violent repertoires will be used at specific historical moments. Using a range of archival and historical sources on recurrent Hindu-Muslim violence in western India, and comparative cases to discipline the theory, this paper demonstrates that ethnic violence becomes a stronger possibility in cases where prior trajectories of state formation have deepened, formalized, and accordingly policed ethnic categories. These possibilities are turned into actual events of ethnic violence when organizations and parties tap them as legacies to create ethnic blocs at unstable historical moments to win political ascendancy. While organizing these blocs they either take advantage of the prior disorganization of other possible social formations (suppressed historical possibilities), or actively disorganize them through tactics that often involve violence.

Ethnic Violence-Growth Matters! An Empirical Investigation of Hindu-Muslim Riots in India

Ethnic Violence--Growth Matters!: An Empirical Investigation of Hindu-Muslim Riots in India