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Peaceful areas, Mr Varshney finds, have strong civic institutions trade unions, professional associations that cross the communal divide.
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But new research by Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna and Ashustosh Varshney paints a less rosy picture.
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Mr Varshney argues that calm areas are kept so by strong non-governmental institutions that cross communal lines.
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Ashutosh Varshney offers to explain why some places in India are peaceful, others nearby prone to ethnic violence.
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Ashutosh Varshney, a professor at the University of Michigan, points out in a new book that levels of communal violence vary widely among Indian states (see chart).
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