Dimensions of Violence and Terrorism
Contents: 1. On violence/T.K.N. Unnithan. 2. Process and problems of violence in the developing countries/Indra Deva. 3. Violence in contemporary Indian society/S.P. Srivastava. 4. Sub-culture of violence/Yedla C. Simhadri. 5. Tradition, violence and modernization: understanding the legitimation crisis of Indian political order/Hetukar Jha. 6. Violence in India: a sociological analysis/B.K. Nagla. 7. Violence against women: a sociological perspective/Ram Ahuja. 8. Gender and violence: a social dependency framework/A. Mahajan. 9. Violence as practice: some theoritical considerations/Subhadra Channa. 10. Patriarchy among the prajas: innocuous tradition or invisible violence/Soumendra Mohan Patnaik. 11. Campus violence/B.B. Pandey. 12. Campus violence in India: genesis and remedies/R.C. Sarikwal. 13. Terrorism in Punjab: the process and consequences/K.L. Sharma. 14. Understanding the phenomenon of terrorism/S.P. Srivastava. 15. International terrorism: reasons of proliferation/H.N. Tripathi. 16. Challence of terrorism: the Kashmir scenario/R. Ahmad. 17. Theorizing terrorism/C.L. Sharma. 18. Studying terrorism: towards a typological framework/C.S. Sood. 19. Communal riots in contemporary India: towards a sociological explanation/Pravin J. Patel. 20. Economics decline, political reaction and the rise of right wing ultra nationalist movements/Berch Berberoglu. 21. Democracy & social tensions: India\'s growing crisis of Governability/L.S. Rathore. 22. Environmental conflict as a new dimension of peace and conflict research/Gyorgy Szell. 23. Rural conflicts in India/S.S. Sharma. 24. Secularism and communalism: the case of Punjab violence/Nirmal Singh. 25. Social system and youth unrest/Mirza R. Ahmad. 26. Mandal Commission Report and student\'s protest at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla: some observations/S.K. Sharma & Ravinder Chauhan. 27. Renaming Marathwada University: an analysis of Dalit-Savarna conflict and violence/Rajendra B. Patil. 28. Youth unrest in India/Kabir Ch. Swain.
"The book presents a catechism on the philosphy of Violence, structural and systematic problems related to various themes and issues concerning conflicts, violence, tension and terrorism. Degradation of social norms, lumpenisation of politics, coexistence of obsolete and upto-date new technologies, poverty allevation, bureaucratic corruption, increasing fierece political competition, painful transition to a more liberal economy, communal, caste and ethnic identities, new consumerism and new ideas of freedom and autonomy being borrowed from affluent nations, were some of the major issues discussed at length and aggressive search for solution and corresponding efforts to nail them, were suggested." (jacket)
