New Pretexts are Being Added to Rouse Communal Hatred in North India скачать в хорошем качестве

New Pretexts are Being Added to Rouse Communal Hatred in North India

New Pretexts are Being Added to Rouse Communal Hatred in North India Latest Incidents in Kanpur and Bareli Expose the Nature of Polarisation Communal violence has been the bane of Indian politics. It has been over a century old. The violence is generally a planned one; according to most scholars of this phenomenon. This violence is followed by rise of communal polarization. The scholars have also opined that “riots produce ethnic polarization that benefits ethno-religious parties at the expense of the Congress”. They maintain that while the Hindu-Muslim riots are electorally costly for the Congress, these riots in effect strengthen the “ethno-religious parties at the expense of multi-ethnic ones like the Congress”. True to this observation more and more pretexts are generated to instigate violence and to reap its electoral benefits.