Contemporary Indian society & Polity are facing tremendous
critical challenges from terror & violence. India believes in satya, dharma, shanti, prema and ahimsa.
But the contemporary Indian situation is bitter and humiliating tensions and
frustrations arising with increasing ferocity, violence and terror violence in
any form is the negation of civilized and peaceful existence. It is basically a
rehash of the streak of barbarism and bestiality of human nature. Deterioration
in moral, ethical and national values at all levels-both in public and private
lives are increasing. There are growing divisive forces, narrow parochialism,
separatist tendencies and linguistic, regional and communal forces are threatening
the unity and integrity of the nation.
All these negative notion of society & polity are changing nature
and faces of contemporary India. In the present book an attempt has been made
to understand and analyze the under current and external forces responsible for
this critical situation.
The book has
not blamed to anyone but stressed to realize and review the undergone changes
in Indian society and emerging political culture which some time appeared
responsible for the public violence. Is
it not the bargaining nature and appeasement policy of Indian polity
responsible for mass mobilization and agitations degenerating into burning and
looting of public property and creating terror and violence in society? A
specific attention has been drowning to highlight the existing realities of
domestic violence, communal violence and sexual violence in Indian society.
Since independence India has witnessed several violent upheavals and
armed uprising particularly in the North-Eastern part and later, in Punjab. The
growth of cross border violence/terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir, the rise and
growth of Naxalities movement in several states of India are pointers to
agrarian unrest turning violent and accepting the leadership of those wedded to
the cult of violence. An attempt has
been made to highlight and focus upon growing public concern in the issue and
the way to minimize threat to internal security from violence and terrorist
attacks as well as to achieve a zero-tolerance level towards such strikes.
Professor Ram Dev Bharadwaj is Pro-Vice-Chancellor in Makanlal Chaturvedi National University of
Journalism & Communication-MCNUJC- Bhopal. Before joining MCNUJ he has been
Professor of Political Science at Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur, (M.P.).
He is Gold Medalist in Political Science from Jiwaji University, Gwalior,
M.Phil from JNU,New Delhi and Ph.D. from Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur.
He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Indonesian
Government Scholarship in 1984, Gold Medal by Sukarno foundation for Education,
Jakarta for his research on Sukarno in 1984. He has been Indian scholar at
Foreign Language Pres, Beijing, China in 1992. He was appointed fellow of
Salzburg seminar-99 by Schools Leopoldskron and awarded Nippon Fellowship from
Japan in 2000. He was invited as a visiting faculty in the Department of
Political Science at University of Salzburg, University of Innsbruck,
University of Vienna and Austrian Institute for International affairs,
Luxemburg, in 1999-2000. He has been awarded Radhakrishanan Samman by Madhya
Pradesh University Grants Commission, Bhopal in 1990 and 1992 for his research
work on Indian Ocean and China’s SEZs. He has also been honored by Dr. Shankar
Dayal Sharma Shrajan Samman-2006 for excellent academic leadership in the field
of Political Science & Pubic Administration. Prof. Bharadwaj has published
14 books and over 110 research papers in internationally and nationally
referred journals and over 70 articles in leading news papers. He has delivered
keynote addresses, expert lectures in 25 International and more than 100
National Conferences and Seminars.
Joseph
Benjamin has done considerable research on the problems
of weaker sections of Indian Society. He has published high quality research
papers in prestigious national and International journals. He has attended
National and International Conferences. He is life member of National and
International Academic bodies. He did his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science.
His books includes; (i) Scheduled Castes in Indian Politics and Society;
(ii) Indo-Pak Relations; (iii) Minorities in Indian Social System in
two Volumes; (iv) Human Rights in Indian Situation; (v) Democratic
Process, Foreign Policy and Human Rights in South Asia; (vi) Rejuvenation
of Higher Education in India; (vii) Proceedings of National Conference
on Quality Enhancement in Higher Education and (viii) Violence and
Terror: Siamese Twins. Currently he is Associate Professor and Head,
Department of Political Science, St. Francis De Sales College, Nagpur. He is
conferred State Ideal Teacher Award by Government of Maharashtra in
2011. He has been teaching in St. Francis De Sales College, (RTM Nagpur
University) since 1987.
