Chad M. Bauman|Tamara Leech
Political competition, relative deprivation, and perceived threat: a research note on anti-Christian violence in India
abstract abstract preliminary subnational statistical analysis violence christians contemporary india article suggests whereas data provide little support simple demographic explanations violence robustly support theories emphasizing relative status ethnic religious minorities visvis majorities perception among hindus christians minorities represent threat numerical political economic strength keywords hinduchristianethnic violenceindianationalism acknowledgements authors would like thank center religion civic culture university southern california john templeton foundation generous grant supported research ariel tyring help developing study database notes 1 follow varshney 2002 varshney 2002 ethnic conflict civic life new ct yale university press google scholar using ethnic broader sense one includes within term ascriptive grouping linguistic religious tribal caste racial etc 2 given chronological distance census data 2001 data attacks christians 20078 examine correlation percentage population aged seven seventeen 2001 incidents violence 20078 3 initially investigated indicators bjp political power addition measures nda political power analyses revealed pattern associations violence christians available upon request authors however correlations stronger consistently significant measures specific nda 4 indian censuses directly record data numbers proportions various castes inverse sc population becomes best possible indicator size middle uppercaste hindu population