There has been a lusty, occasionally nasty academic debate over what causes or encourages communal rioting in India, and what factors push toward harmony. The two explanations that have battled most vigorously seek the answer in violence as a tool of political operators (Paul Brass, for example, has written of 'entrepreneurs of violence') and in civic and professional organisations as instruments for building robust cooperation between communities (as seen, for example, in the work of Ashutosh Varshney).
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