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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 417–421.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Hindus burned to death, most observers have argued that the response was not commensurate with the attack, and, of course, it targeted not the criminals who may have set the fire, but a community of Muslims 100 miles away. Riot Politics: Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State . By Ward...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (3): 689–715.
Published: 01 May 1975
...Arthur L. Rosenbaum Abstract The Changsha rice riot of April 12–16, 1910 was one of the series of popular revolts that racked the Ch'ing dynasty in its closing years.1 Triggered by serious crop failures and peasant demand for relief, it involved over twenty thousand participants and the occupation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 552–553.
Published: 01 May 1978
...Veena Talwar Oldenburg Roots of Communal Politics: The Cawnpur Riot Commission Report . Edited by N. Gerald Barrier . Columbia, Mo. : South Asia Books , 1976 . Appendixes. $16.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 552 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES abyss...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 25 (4): 665–679.
Published: 01 August 1966
... Telegraph Company. 33 Confidential Correspondence , Telegram, XXIII, 24. 32 In the interval between the riot and September 19, four British and one American warship arrived in Foochow. Cf. United States Department of State,
Despatches from United States Ministers to China ,
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 26 (1): 113–114.
Published: 01 November 1966
...Earl Swisher Britain, China, and the Antimissionary Riots, 1891–1900 . By Edmund S. Wehrle . Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press , 1966 . xii, 223 . Bibliography, Index. $5.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 113...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (1): 96–119.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Kedon Willis Abstract The 1918 anti-Chinese riots, which saw scores of Chinese-owned stores destroyed by largely Afro-descended peasant community members, are popularly remembered as one of the worst acts of interracial violence in Jamaica's postemancipation history. However, by examining...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (2): 508–510.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Laura Dudley Jenkins Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India . By Steven Wilkinson . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press , 2004 . xiii , 293 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 508 T H E J O U R N...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 667–674.
Published: 01 May 2008
... points this affects the applicability of the larger narrative. We now have a rich body of material on the May 1998 riots in Jakarta. The chronology of the violence in chapter 5 moves through these materials methodically, creating one of the best overviews currently available. By comparison, information...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (4): 613–635.
Published: 01 August 1965
...Ravinder Kumar Abstract The Deccan Riots of 1875 highlight the social transformations brought about in rural Maharashtra in western India during the first five decades of British rule. The riots are of special interest to the social historian since they hinged upon relations between two important...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 131–133.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Ashutosh Varshney Riots and Pogroms . Edited by Paul Brass . New York : New York University Press , 1996 . x, 262 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $18.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 131 recognize convergence at the norms...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 745–746.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Patricia Gossman Communal Riots in Bengal, 1905–1947 . By Suranjan Das . Oxford University South Asian Studies Series. Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1991 . xv, 311 pp. Rs. 225. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 745...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1172–1174.
Published: 01 November 2004
... of the series in order to gain a more complete understanding of the ways in which political and cultural discourse produced and reproduced empire in Victorian Britain. BRIAN CATON Luther College Khaki and the Ethnic Violence in India: Army, Police, and Paramilitary Forces during Communal Riots. By OMAR KHALIDI...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (4): 767–788.
Published: 01 August 1982
...R. Bin Wong Abstract Competition over grain supplies produced conflict when the people controlling large stores of grain failed to sell or lend grain at prices and in quantities demanded by the people needing grain. These conflicts, known generally as food riots, took place within a general...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 764–766.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Cecily McCaffrey Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty . By Ho-fung Hung . New York : Columbia University Press , 2011 . xvi, 253 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 235–254.
Published: 01 February 1970
...Charles S. Blackton Abstract In 1915, riots broke out in the British colony of Ceylon, the climax of a controversy between Sinhalese Buddhists and a new clement among the commercial “Moors” (Muslims). A court ruling disappointing to the Buddhists, combined with economic complaints against Moors...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 255–266.
Published: 01 February 1970
...P. T. M. Fernando Abstract Following the 1915 riots in Ceylon, a campaign for redress of grievances resulting from the colonial government's actions in suppressing the riots brought to prominence a new group of Western-educated, middleclass Ceylonese political leaders and led to the growth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 223–233.
Published: 01 February 1970
...Kumari Jayawardena Abstract The 1915 Buddhist-Muslim riots in Ceylon are often attributed to religious animosity, but economic and political factors significantly influenced the environment in which the riots occurred and help to explain the drastic government reaction to the disorders. The Muslims...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 864–865.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Haimanti Roy Hindu-Muslim Riots . By Richard D. Lambert . Karachi : Oxford University Press , 2014 . xii, 285 pp. ISBN: 9780199068593 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016 2016 Communal violence in India, especially between Hindus...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (2): 285–298.
Published: 01 February 1969
... the Powers rushed naval vessels to cities where riots threatened or occurred to protect foreigners and overawe local officials. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 1 For a history of the war:
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 219–222.
Published: 01 February 1970
...Robert N. Kearney Abstract Few events have made a more profound impact on political developments in modern Ceylon than an outbreak of riots between Buddhists and Muslims in 1915 and the reaction of British colonial officials to the disorders. The Ceylonese view was that the authorities responded...
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