Political violence increases when regional party candidate wins election: Study – ThePrint
Political violence increases when regional party candidate wins election: Study Researchers from Netherlands and Canada looked at data from 1989 until 2012 to find no increase in violence in constituencies where the assembly seat is reserved for ST populations. Text Size: A+ Many Indian states have ethnic populations that are minority nationally but majority locally. This is by design – the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 re-drew state borders to contain local ethnolinguistic majorities. Moreover, in the decades since independence, significant decision-making authority has been devolv...
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