ABSTRACT
This chapter interrogates the shared assumption of ‘mobilisation of religious identity’ span across studies of communal violence in India, which were mostly written against the background of the Partition and history of Hindu-Muslim relations. It moves to the context of Kerala and examines how the pacifist discourse on inter-community relationship in Kerala undermines the long history of violence among Marakkayar Muslims and Mukkuvar Christians and argues that this negligence in the academic discourse on Kerala, to a great extent, adheres to the taken-for-granted assumptions on communal violence in India.
