Under Modi govt, there's been communalisation of police, admin: Sudha Pai

The present confrontation is not an attempt to improve law and order; it targets the minorities, says 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