 "Under Modi govt, there's been communalisation of police, admin: Sudha Pai")
In an interview to Aditi Phadnis, author and professor Dr Sudha Pai talks about her recent book with Sajjan Kumar titled Everyday Communalism, the rising polarisation amidst Hindus and Muslims and how caste-based mobilisation has been significant in UP politics.
The current thinking seems to be that 1. That Hindu-Muslim conflict is largely an urban phenomenon; 2. that civic engagement between communities prevents conflict because civic organisations promote interdependency among communities and defuse clashes; and 3. Once having captured power, communal forces tend to stop using communal appeal in elections which account (partially) for a drop in Hindu-Muslim violence. In the context
