COMMUNALISM IN INDIA
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Communalism, politics, violence, religion, riot, StateAbstract
Since the mob lynching attacks and ugly communal politics are increasing day by day in our country, a discussion of the whole concept of communalism seems essential which has been the purpose of this paper. This paper attempts to discuss at length, the meaning and elucidation of communalism in the Indian context. The origin and evolution of communalism in the Indian society, the movements which contributed to communalism decades ago and how communalism has been emanated through communal politics by our politicians have also been mentioned.
An analysis of the various laws which are infringed when political parties gather votes by using religion, the aftermath of all the communalism that caused horrifying riots, mob lynching attacks and the statistical data of the same has also been made. The paper further enumerates on the various steps taken by the state, formation of committees and commissions, draft of anti-communal bills and their status has. Other than that, the criminal laws applicable to communalists, cases in this regard have also been given a scrutiny in depth.
The paper also mentions at the end what remedial steps could be taken by the Indian Government to choose nation over religion and how we, as independent individuals can contribute to making a change.
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