Perspectives on Violence and Othering in India

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 tion of Cross-Cultural Psychology. She is an Associate Editor of the journal Psychological Studies, and earlier an Associate Editor of Psychology and Developing Societies. She is also on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychology. Professor Singh had received the Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship from the Commonwealth Association of Universities at the University of Bristol, UK. She has to her credit numerous papers in edited volumes, articles in journals and conference presentations.

Part I: Violence: Its problematique.- Chapter 1. Violence and the other: Contestations in Multicultural Society.- Chapter 2.      Understanding Violence.- Chapter 3. Free Speech Violence, and the State.- Chapter 4. The Climate of Violence and the Concern for Communal Harmony.- Part II: Construction of the Other.- Chapter 5. Belonging/ Unbelonging to the Nation.- Chapter 6. Violence and the Other in Islam and Hinduism: The 1809 Lat-Bhairon Riots of Banaras.- Part III: Contestations of Identities.- Chapter 7. Group and Individual-Level Determinants of Collective Violence: Social Psychological Aspects of Hindu-Muslim Riots.- Chapter 8. Identity, Activism, and Political Violence: Psychological Perspective on Kashmiri Militants.- Chapter 9. Religious Violence and the “Developmental State” in Rajasthan.- Part IV: Towards Harmony and Peace.- Chapter 10. Between Revenge and Reconciliation: theSignificance of Truth Commission.- Chapter 11. Transcending Boundaries: Fundamentalism, Secularism, and Social Capital in multi-faith Societies.