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July 14, 2015

Pritam Singh on Institutional Communalism in India

The Economic and Political Weekly, Vol - L No. 28, July 11, 2015

Institutional Communalism in India
by Pritam Singh

The fight against institutional communalism in India alerts us to a challenge bigger than merely inflicting electoral defeats on Hindu communal parties and organisations. Even if such parties are defeated electorally, institutional Hindu communalism remains pervasive in varying degrees in India's Constitution, judiciary, civil services, electoral and parliamentary institutions, security forces, prisons, academia, media, corporate business, and even non-governmental organisations, it will continue as a social, cultural and politico-economic force to disadvantage the lives of minority communities in India.

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