Fraternity or fracture? National identity, religious minorities, and communal violence in India

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Brief Overview

This paper examines how defeats in India-Pakistan cricket matches trigger communal violence, showing how national adversity undermines social cohesion in diverse democracies.

Authors

• Humoyun Abdumavlon, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus

• Nilesh Fernando, King's College London

• Layton Hall, Independent Researcher