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Have politicians licensed the people to enjoy violence and punish those they see as enemies?
An excerpt from ‘The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics’, by Thomas Blom Hansen. A mob on the streets of North East Delhi on February 24, 2020. | Reuters/ Danish Siddiqui
Decades of scholarship on violence in India and South Asia has tended to focus almost exclusively on incidents of dramatic communal violence. The powerful insights in the literature on communal riots notwithstanding, these moments are almost inadvertently turned into exceptional moments of extreme violence, and near-pathological cruelty.
This same view has been shared by officials and police officers for many decades. It continues to inform the longstanding policy of using live ammunition against certain “rampaging mobs” in such situations, out of a fear of rapid all out escalation. Evidently, the shadows of Partition and the fear of the “cauldron” of public anger remains
Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State
Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State
Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State
Gujarat since 2002
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Print publication year:
2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107588332
Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State
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When violence occurs in democracies it is often characterized as an aberration. The state that saw human rights violations and failure of law and order in Gujarat in 2002 emerged, even if by its own admission, as a model for good governance. Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State, through an account of displaced Muslims, challenges this notion. Through the unlikely yet probing lens of displacement, it offers fresh insight into communal violence and is an important resource for the emerging domain of forced migration and the changing nature of t