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MINORITIES AND POLICE IN INDIA. Edited by Asghar Ali Engineer andAmarjitS. Narang. New Delhi: Manohar, 2006. 226pp. (Tables.) US$13.95, cloth. ISBN 81-7304-678-6.
This volume grew out of a seminar in New Delhi organized joindy by the Human Rights Education Programme of Indira Gandhi National Open University and the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai. The essays are written by human rights activists, academics and retired senior policemen. There are resulting variations in style, particularly widi regard to referencing. Careful editing might not only have addressed this unevenness, but prevented repetition arising from verbatim quotations from the same commissions of enquiry in a number of the chapters. It is a great pity diat the volume is not more tightly focused as it deals widi an immensely important subject for understanding large-scale communal violence.
The contributors consider police behaviour in communal riots from the 1960s...