Role of Social Science Pedagogy

and theorists alluded to above, has produced a vast literature on every aspect of the subject, in a range of media. A history of communalism, examining its roots in colonial govermentality and law, is easily presented. The role of key actors in the social reform, nationalist and popular movements during the latter half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries in furthering or hindering the discourse of communalism has been thoroughly examined. Historians have also shown the differences between inter-religious and inter-sectarian strife in south Asian premodemity, and communal conflict in colonial and post-colonial India. Similarly the sociology of communalism, revealing its constitutive connection with modem ideologies of caste, is now available to us. So also an analysis of the growth of communalism that attributes it to economic backwardness, class disparities, state-sponsored developmentalism