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Have politicians licensed the people to enjoy violence and punish those they see as enemies?
An excerpt from ‘The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics’, by Thomas Blom Hansen. A mob on the streets of North East Delhi on February 24, 2020. | Reuters/ Danish Siddiqui
Decades of scholarship on violence in India and South Asia has tended to focus almost exclusively on incidents of dramatic communal violence. The powerful insights in the literature on communal riots notwithstanding, these moments are almost inadvertently turned into exceptional moments of extreme violence, and near-pathological cruelty.
This same view has been shared by officials and police officers for many decades. It continues to inform the longstanding policy of using live ammunition against certain “rampaging mobs” in such situations, out of a fear of rapid all out escalation. Evidently, the shadows of Partition and the fear of the “cauldron” of public anger remains