Theorising Communalism-A Fragmentary Note in the Marxist Mode

A Fragmentary Note in the Marxist Mode Randhir Singh Most contemporary thinking, writing or theorising on communalism is seriously flawed by an ideological error on the one hand and a methodological limitation on the other. The ideological error which has virtually pre-empted the entire field of thought or study on communalism in this country lies in understanding communalism from the standpoint of nationalism. And the methodological limitation lies in studying contemporary communalism in an essentially empiricist and often a historical manner