PAUL R. BRASS is Professor of Politics

His work has been based on extensive field research in India during numerous visits since 1961. His most recent books are: Forms of Collective Violence: Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide in Modern India (2006); The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (2003); Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence (1997); Riots and Pogroms (1996); and The Politics of India Since Independence, 2nd ed. (1994).

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

2006: Forms of Collective Violence: Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide in Modern India. Gurgaon: Three Essays Collective. Pp. 184

2003: The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Pp. 476

2002: Competing Nationalisms in South Asia: Essays for Asghar Ali Engineer. Ed. with Achin Vanaik. Hyderabad: Orient Longman.

1997: Theft of an Idol:Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Pp. 298

1996: Riots and Pogroms. London and New York: Macmillan and NYU Press. Pp. 252

1994: The Politics of India Since Independence, 2nd edition, vol. iv:i of the New Cambridge History of
India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 403

1991: Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and
Comparison. New Delhi and Newbury Park, CA: Sage. Pp. 358.

1990: The Politics of India Since Independence,
vol. iv:i of the New Cambridge History of India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 357

1987: The Indian National Congress and Indian Society, 1885-1985: Ideology, Social Structure, and Political Dominance (with Francis Robinson). New Delhi: Chanakya Press. Pp. 480.

1985: Ethnic Groups and the State. London: Croom Helm. Pp. 341.

1985: Caste, Faction, and Party in Indian Politics, Vol. II: Election Studies. New Delhi: Chanakya Press. Pp. 325.

1984: Caste, Faction, and Party in Indian Politics, Vol. I: Faction and Party. New Delhi: Chanakya Press. Pp. 339.

1982: Science, Politics, and the Agricultural Revolution in Asia (with Robert S. Anderson, Edwin Levy, and Barrie M. Morrison). Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. 512 pp.

1974: Language, Religion, and Politics in North India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. 467 pp.

1973: Radical Politics in South Asia (with Marcus Franda). Cambridge: The MIT Press. 449 pp.

1965: Factional Politics in an Indian State: The Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh. Berkeley, University of California. 262 pp.

SELECTED ARTICLES

2006: “The Development of an Institutionalised Riot System in Meerut City, 1961 to 1982,” in Ian Talbot (ed), The Deadly Embrace (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 81-107.

2006: “Collective Violence, Human Rights, and the Politics of Curfew,” Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 5, No. 3, July-September 2006 pp. 323-40.

2006: “Victims, Heroes, or Martyrs? Partition and the Problem of Memorialization in Contemporary Sikh History,” Sikh Formations,Vol. 2, No. 1, June 2006, pp. 17-31.

2006: “Indian Secularism in Practice,” in the Indian Journal of Secularism, Vol. 9 (No. 1), Jan-Mar, 115-32.

2005: “The Body as Symbol in the Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence,” in Ravinder Kaur (ed.), Religion, Violence, and Political Mobilisation in South Asia, (New Delhi: Sage, 2005),pp. 46-68.

2005: “Rape at Daphnala,” in Steven I. Wilkinson (ed.), Religious Politics and Communal Violence (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 34-65. [Reprint of chapter from Theft of an Idol.]

2004: "Development of an Institutionalised Riot System in Meerut City, 1961 to 1982," ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY (October 30, 2004), pp. 4839-4848.

2004: "Elite interests, popular passions, and social power in the language politics of India," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 27 (No. 3) May 2004, pp. 353-375.

2004: "Muslims in Hindu Nationalist India," Center Conversations (April 2004).

2003: "The Partition of India and Retributive Genocide in the Punjab, 1946-47: Means, Methods, and Purposes," Journal of Genocide Research (2003), 5(1), 71-101.

2003: "Review Article: Rulers of India," Economic Development and Cultural Change, 51: 2 (January 2003), 523-28.

2002: “India, Myron Weiner, and the Political Science of Development,” Economic and Political Weekly, XXXVII, No. 29 (July 20-26, 2002), 3026-40.

2000: “The Strong State and the Fear of Disorder,” in Francine R. Frankel, et al. (eds.), Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy (New Delhi: Oxford University Press). Pp. 60-88

1984: "National Power and Local Politics in India: A Twenty-Year Perspective," Modern Asian Studies, XVIII, No. 1 (February, 1984), 89-118.

1968: "Coalition Politics in North India," The American Political Science Review, LXII (December, 1968), 1174-1191.

BOOK REVIEWS

2003: "The World's Largest Hypocrisies"; Review of The Maverick Republic: Thirty Years of Coverage by Jawid Laiq; Roli Books, New Delhi, 2000.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2004: Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide in Contemporary India: From Partition to the Present.