Publication Details
Civil violence in India
micro-level foundations and welfare
Jaideep Gupte
Patricia Justino
John-Pierre Tranchant
2010
Abstract
While the political science literature has produced extensiveknowledge on the causes of communal violence in India, noattention has been paid to the consequences of persistence violence on the lives of populations in areas of communalviolence. This paper analyses the welfare consequences of communal violence in Maharashtra. This analysis is based on a unique survey of 1000 households conducted by the authors on individual experience of rioting and other forms of violence.The survey includes information on household composition,welfare and exposure to violence. The paper makes useof this survey to link household and individual exposure to violence with vulnerability to poverty, to profile the actors of violence from an economic perspective, to uncover the coping strategies of households exposed to violence and to estimate the consequences of violence on household poverty andvulnerability.
Publication Type(s)
Conference Paper
Ten Years of War Against Poverty Conference Papers
Conference: Ten Years of War Against Poverty