Communalism In India.

A cup of coffee or tea in the evening is an essential part of every household in this country and all the daily discussions that are a part of the social structure of a family usually happens over tea in the evening. It is not uncommon to see family discussing all the social and political scenarios of the country.

Though a point that should be taken under consideration is how often these discussions turn to a communal perspective, which is high because most of the media coverage is upon these topics nowadays. Putting the role of media aside, this ideology of communalism that the majority of the country is suffering from has a direct impact on the current scenario of the politics in India. However, argumentatively the rise of communalism in politics has led to the development of communal ideology in the public.

Communalism is characterized as a hypothesis of a public that is partitioned into segments often based on a common religion, autonomous cooperatives, and the state is only a confederation of these collectives under a community. It practices placing the interests of the community over the interests of an individual. This is generally done on the rule that the community exists to help the people who take an interest in it, so the ideal approach to serve the interests of the individual is through the interests of the community.  For the past few decades, this has gone to take an antagonistic significance where individuals have begun advancing the interests of one community over another.

Communalism accepts that the individuals of various religions have various interests in political and financial issues, whether or not they have a place with a similar area. In the Indian context, it has gone on to mean divide based on religion and ethnicity leading to communal violence instead of peace and unity. Religion has always been one of the best factors to divide people. It is used as an influential mechanism to attain economic, political, and other social activities repeatedly. Which unfortunately has to lead to several cases of communal violence in the country? The most recent being the Delhi communal violence in February 2020.

If we somehow happen to take a surface perspective of the realities of any collective uproar in India, no doubt the mob was brought about by an episode so immaterial that we would stand stunned at how such a frivolous issue could cause so much larceny, plunder, and murder. It anyway does not require a lot of speculation to realize that this occurrence was not the genuine reason for the uproar. The essential reason for every single mutual aggravation is the collective environment infesting in the nation and the common strain developed between two communities. The mutual environment gives a prepared plowed soil to common leaning individuals to plant seeds of collective disdain and sustain them until the harsh gather of shared mobs is harvested. It is rightly stated in the history that the "divide and rule" policy was introduced by the Britishers   in the Indian society and it can be rightly affirmed that the current political parties of the country are still using this policy and often fill the crowd with rage and confuse communalism with patriotism. 

By: Hammy