reading on Indian Muslims, Indian Christians, communalism, and the Hindu right

    

See also reading on the 2002 Gujarat massacre.   

Angana P. Chatterji, Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India's Present—Narratives from Orissa, Three Essays Collective (Gurgaon, Haryana), 2009

Robert Eric Fryenberg, Christianity in India: From Beginnings to the Present, Oxford University Press, 2008

Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community of India: A Report [The Sachar Committee report], Prime Minister's High-Level Committee, Government of India, November 2006 

Anand Teltumbde (ed.), Hindutva and Dalits: Perspectives for Understanding Communal Praxis, Samya (Kolkata), 2005

Threatened Existence: A Feminist Analysis of the Genocide in Gujarat [with background on the Hindu right], Report by the International Initiative for Justice (IIJ), December 2003 

David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence (eds.), Beyond Hindu and Turk: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamic South Asia, India Research Press, 2002 

Sumit Sarkar, Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History, Permanent Black, 2002 

Chetan Bhatt, Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies and Modern Myths, Berg, 2001

Thomas Blom Hansen and Christophe Jaffrelot, The BJP and the Compulsions of Politics in India, Oxford UP, second edition 2001 

Aijaz Ahmad, Lineages of the Present: Ideology and Politics in South Asia, Verso, 2000 

N.L. Gupta (ed.), Communal Riots, Gyan Publishing House, 2000 

John Zavos, The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in India, Oxford UP, 2000

Thomas Blom Hansen, The Saffron Wave, Princeton UP, 1999 

Pradip Kumar Datta, Carving Blocs: Communal Ideology in Early Twentieth-Century Bengal, Oxford UP, 1999 

Sujata Patel and Alice Thorner (eds.), Bombay: Metaphor for Modern India, Oxford UP, 1995

Peter van der Veer, Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India, University of California Press, 1994 

Christophe Jaffrelot, The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India, Columbia UP, 1993 (Les nationalistes hindous, 1993) 

Tapan Basu, Pradip Datta, Sumit Sarkar, Tanika Sarkar, and Sambuddha Sen, Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags, Orient Longman, 1993 

Asghar Ali Engineer (ed.), Communal Riots in Post-Independence India, Sangam Books, second edition 1991 

Gyanendra Pandey, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, Oxford UP, 1990

Duncan B. Forrester, Caste and Christianity: Attitudes and Policies on caste of Anglo-Saxon Protestant Missions in India, Curzon Press (London), 1980