Under India's Hindu nationalist BJP government, violence has transformed from unmediatedcommunal violence—organized riots and pogroms—to the economico-juridical violence of dispossession, enacted through development-induced displacement and infrastructural reordering. This dissertation reveals how these distinct yet interconnected forms of violence have become systematically intertwined under what I term "communal capitalism"—a mode of rule where neoliberal urban development reorders space, power, and social relations along ethno-territorial lines while preserving state legitimacy. A prime example is the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project, flagship of Narendra Modi's post- 2002 urban agenda and a blueprint for national policies since the BJP's ascent in 2014. This project displaced over 40,000 people, embedding violence into infrastructure to sustain social hierarchies and antagonisms, even as it conceals overt coercion from middle-class publics. Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography (2017–2021) that follows communities caught up in shifting forms of violence—from the former riverbank settlements to the city's resettlement colonies—the study conceptualizes these sites as "double frontiers," volatile time-spaces where capitalist and communal frontier-making logics converge. While riots were historically used to enforce communal segregation, the dissertation demonstrates how these same antagonisms are now maintained and managed through urban development schemes that regulate Muslim presence. Rather than excluding Muslims outright, these processes foster a regime of differential incorporation, managing Muslim agency in ways that transform it into a component of hegemonic violence. The dissertation advances three key arguments. First, Hindu nationalist violence is not merely coercive but fundamentally productive, shaping political subjects, social identities, and spatial orders. Second, it operates via differential incorporation, integrating marginalized communities under conditions of vulnerability and continuous state oversight. Third, violence is sublimated across cultural, economicojuridical, and spatial registers—not because it disappears, but because overt violence, though effective for consolidation, ultimately exposes the fragility of hegemony. The dissertation's findings resonate far beyond Ahmedabad's frontiers, offering critical insights into emergent forms of authoritarian governance worldwide. By revealing how communal capitalist hegemony operates through interlocking systems of violence—cultural, economico-juridical, and spatial—this study illuminates both the sophistication and inherent vulnerability of contemporary authoritarian projects. As techniques pioneered in Gujarat's urban laboratories scale to national and transnational governance, the connections uncovered between previously discrete forms of violence expose potential ruptures where resistance might emerge. The persistence of alternative possibilities at these margins, however constrained, suggests that even totalizing systems contain within themselves the seeds of their own transformation. By examining how social groups navigate these shifting landscapes of power at urban frontiers, this work ultimately contributes to our understanding of how communal capitalist hegemony both maintains its authority and reveals its points of fragility, opening possibilities for collective action against increasingly normalized forms of violence across the globe.