Introduction
Bipin Chandra describes communalism as the belief that society is made up of different religious communities and their secular interests differ and are even hostile to one another.
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Main Body
Communalism gains strength from economic deprivation, thrives in social exclusion creating fertile ground for discontent and division.
From colonial India - Muslim landlords and hindu tenants in Bihar to Tutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, economic deprivation and social exclusion leads to communalism.
It plays a role in transforming liberal communalism to extreme communalism. (Bipin Chandra)
The Sachar Committee also said that ghettoisation and economic disparity was the biggest reason of communalism.
Every community feels that the other community is snatching economic opportunities from each other. So small things build up and lead to future riots. Like we saw in Nuh-Mewat, 2002 Gujarat and Muzaffarnagar in 2013.
Ashutosh Varshney, thus calls for people to have more communication with one another and break prejudices.
The recommendation of Equal creation of Equal opportunity cell can also be looked into.
National Integration Council should be reinstated.
We must learn from countries like Belgium where they have power sharing model.
Conclusion
We must realise country built on Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas will lead to realisation of goals of Amrit Kaal.
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- Strong theoretical grounding with Bipin Chandra
- International comparative example (Rwanda)
Anshul Bhatt
Communalism, Regionalism & Secularism
Communalism
Causes and Nature of Communalism
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