Communalism: A Primer

by Bipan Chandra

92 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Bipan Chandra (born 1928) is an Indian historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern India. He has specialized on the national movement. He is considered an authority on Modern Indian History and is one of its most popular scholars.

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Reviews

[Mahender Singh]

Good book to understand politics of religious communalism and hatred and to avoid it.
More relevant in these crucial times.

[Nikhil]

What a disaster. People need to understand that India got Independence in 1947. It is baseless to set the basis of your teachings and analogies pre and post-independence. The entire govt structure was different. We were under British rule back then. Clearly, this author (who even called Bhagat Singh and others a revolutionary terrorist in his book: India's Struggle for Independence) was totally biased and a devotee of Nehru. He was also a professor in JNU and a recipient of Padma Bhushan in 2010 for his book India's Struggle for Independence (wow)
I can also now understand where JNU students get their selective hatred and outrage for the govt.

[Ankur]

A short but an enlightening piece of work depicting the menace of communalism.

[Aquib Jamal]

If you expect this book to provide a clear history of communalism in India, you might get disappointed. Rather it gives ideas and roles of organizations, state, and the individuals on fighting communalism