Postcolonial trajectories, not regime quadrant, explain differing contention inscriptions

Evidence

Although both regimes emerged from anticolonial rebellions and civil wars, the inscription of religious differences into Indian public politics (as compared with the racial differences that have long shaped U.S. politics) resulted from the trajectory out of colonialism and through civil war. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1315

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s home library — Naqvi’s Home Boy and Hamid’s Reluctant Fundamentalist both trace religious-identity inscription in postcolonial public politics. — connects to: Laws of contention vary by regime type and era. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 365; the MOC “The Word Is a Fence: Language as Battleground, Property, and Partition”