Conflict Terror and Violence in Indian Society and Polity
Contents: Preface. 1. Notion of terror and violence/Ram Dev Bharadwaj. 2. Domestic violence in India/Joseph Benjamin. 3. Dalit movements and violence in Maharashtra/Shriram Yerankar. 4. Organized violence against scheduled castes/Joseph Benjamin. 5. Ethnic conflict and violence of Bodos in Assam/Manju Singh. 6. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj : A solution to political violence/Preeti Vyas. 7. The Naxalism menace in Bihar/M. Rafique Alam. 8. Terror and violence reference to law and order administration/Jalai Goontiya. 9. Dimension of violence and politics in Bihar/Ravindra Kumar Verma and Ram Ranbir Singh. 10. Understanding of inter-group conflicts in India/Deepika Gupta. 11. Violence against women in Jammu and Kashmir/Suhail Manzoor Malik. 12. Naxalism: threat to internal security/Deepika Chakraborty. 13. Crime against sexual violence: Nirbhya Gang rape case/Ulfat Hussain Reshi. 14. Women and human rights in Pakistan: challenges for 21st century/Ruchi Ramesh and Sudhir Singh. 15. Narcoterror and cyberterrorism: challenges to India’s security/Siddhartha Bharadwaj. Index.
Contemporary Indian society and polity are facing tremendous critical challenges from terror and violence. India believes in satya, dharma, shanti, prema and ahimsa. But the contemporary Indian situation is bitter and humiliating tensions and frustrations arising with increasing ferocity, violence and terror violence in any form is the negation of civilized and peaceful existence. It is basically rehash of the streak of barbarism and bestiality of human nature. Deterioration in moral, ethical and national values at all levels both in public and private lives are increasing. There are growing divisive forces, narrow parochialism, separatist tendencies and linguistic regional and communal forces are threatening the unity and integrity of the nation. All these negative notion of society and polity are changing nature and faces of contemporary India. In the present book an attempt has been made to understand and analyze the under current and external forces responsible for this critical situation.
The book has not blamed to anyone but stressed to realize and review the undergone changes in Indian society and emerging political culture which some time appeared responsible for the public violence. Is it not the bargaining nature and appeasement policy of Indian polity responsible for mass mobilization and agitations degenerating into burning and looting of public property and creating terror and violence in society? A specific attention has been drowning to highlight the existing realities of domestic violence, communal violence and sexual violence in Indian society.
Since Independence India has witnessed several violent upheavals and armed uprising particularly in the North-Eastern part and later, in Punjab. The growth of cross border violence/terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, the rise and growth of Naxalities movement in several states of India are pointers to agrarian unrest turning violent and accepting the leadership of those weeded to the cult of violence. An attempt has been made to highlight and focus upon growing public concern in the issue and the way to minimize threat to internal security from violence and terrorist attacks as well as to achieve zero tolerance level towards such strikes. (jacket)
