Religion and Violence in South Asia: Theory and Practice

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Introduction
Part I Classical approaches to violence in South Asian traditions
	1 Telling stories about harm: An overview of early Indian narratives
	2 The non-violence of violence: Jain perspectives on warfare, asceticism and worship
	3 Buddhist monks, Buddhist kings, Buddhist violence: On the early Buddhist attitudes to violence
	4 Crimes against God and Violent Punishment in al-Fatawa  al-‘ Alamgiriyya
	5 Text as sword: Sikh religious violence taken for wonder
Part 2 Religion and violence in contemporary South Asia
	6 Operationalizing Buddhism for political ends in a martial context in Lanka: The case of Simhalatva
	7 Religion and violence: The historical context for conflict in Pakistan
	8 The 2002 pogrom in Gujarat: The post-9/11 face of Hindu nationalist anti-Muslim violence
Part 3 Theory—framing the religion and violence debate
	9 A categorical difference: Communal identity in British epistemologies
	10 The global fiduciary: Mediating the violence of religion
	11 The association of ‘religion’ with violence: Reflections on a modern trope
Index