{"id":36288,"date":"2018-11-02T11:54:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36288"},"modified":"2018-11-02T11:54:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:24:56","slug":"crime-and-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/crime-and-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime and context:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/crime-and-context-4739229\/\">Crime and context<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is high time that the country should understand the context of lynching and how it had come into existence.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are countries where lynching, as a form of collective violence, is common \u00a0but retrospectively, India was not one of them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, after 1993, though small incidents continued, big riots declined.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pattern broken only twice, first in 2002 in Gujarat and next in September, 2013 in Muzaffarnagar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of its size and destruction, the latter (September, 2013) raised alarms in 2013-14.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Big riots like lynching might have come to the Indian scenario because of two reasons:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Firstly, worldwide data show that at higher levels of income, which India has relative to 1993, rioting becomes highly episodic, as opposed to occurring repeatedly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Secondly because while majorty-minority polarisation would be in the political interest of the ruling party but widespread rioting was not.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is to be noted that the minorities of the country are not the only target of lynching but they are at the spotlight.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because the new reason for lynching is beef and cattle trade, both explicitly connected to the majority&#8217;s nationalist project.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Two categories of lynching<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first aims at restoring routine order via mob violence.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of using the police, mob violence is used as a disciplining mechanism.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second category of lynching aims at enforcing a majoritarian ethnic\/racial\/religious political order.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for example, During 1880-1930, white mobs lynched black Americans if they crossed a certain historically embedded hierarchical boundary.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Who are the actual criminals?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The routine criminals are the instigators, not nationalists of the country&#8217;s majority.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, in routine criminality, calculations and jealousies have often been inserted into the master narrative of riots and civil wars.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, if the master narrative of cow protection were not so systematically promoted by the current Indian political elite then the regular criminals would not have that narrative to plug into.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime and context:\u00a0 Context: It is high time that the country should understand the context of lynching and how it had come into existence. Introduction: There are countries where lynching, as a form of collective violence, is common \u00a0but retrospectively, India was not one of them. 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