Violence against the Muslims in India

What is a caste system? In India, the caste system could be explained as an elaborately strictly organized social hierarchy that distinguishes India’s social structure apart from any other realm. It’s history is intricate and complex. With a religious foundation and based on a discord of labor, the caste system, along with other aspects, states what types of professions a person can pursue and the social relations one is allowed to have. India’s caste system is divided into four main classes: Brahmin which contains scriptural teachers, Kshatriya which takes on all forms of public service and maintenance of law and order, Vaishya which participate in corporate endeavor as businessmen, and Shudra which work as lower-skilled laborers. In 1900, India was part of the British Empire; but by the end of 1947, India had achieved independence. The caste system has no validity in India. Discrimination against lower classes is illegal in India under Article 15 of its constitution. However, random caste-related refinement and violence continue to be testified. Since the 1950s, the nation has proclaimed many laws and social plans to protect and recover the socioeconomic conditions of its lower caste population, which was transformed from a primary symbol of modernity and cultural variety into a location of intense ethnic struggle and violent self-government.

For the majority of the nineteenth century, India was ruled by the British.

As early as 1917, Britain had played with the notion of giving India a partial measure of self-government: "the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realization of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire". In 1919, the Government of...

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...erous, that the violence is not as extensive as it seems. They claim it is restricted to certain urban areas because of local conditions, and there are many cities where Muslims and Hindus live together without problems and with almost no incidences of biased violence. According to political scientists, associations with origins in Hindu nationalism have played a major role in these incidents of anti-Muslim violence, and in generating anti-Muslim sentiment. In particular, groups associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, such as the Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bharatiya Janata Party are all considered by scholars to have a significant part in the violence. They have used these communal riots and anti-Muslim advertising as a part of a larger political strategy. These acts of violence against Muslims have tarnished India’s post independence history.