The lst edition, 2002 is a hardback copy. Some copies are Yale University Press, 2002, paperback, 2nd ed., with an additional six page preface(xv), 24 cm. Content otherwise identical.

pt. 1. Arguments and theories: Introduction -- Why civil society? : ehnic conflict and the existing traditions of inquiry -- pt. 2. The national level: Competing national imaginations -- Hindu-Muslim riots, 1950-1995 : the national picture -- pt. 3. Aligarh and Calicut: internal and external cleavages: Aligarh and Calicut : civic life and its political foundations -- Vicious and virtuous circles -- Hyderabad and Lucknow : elite integration versus mass integration: Princely resistance to civil society -- Hindu nationalists as bridge builders? -- Ahmedabad and Surat : how civi institutions decline: Gandhi and civil society -- Decline of a civic order and communal violence -- Endogeneity? : of causes and consequences -- pt. 4. Conclusions: ethnic conflict, the state, and civil society -- Appendices.