Dr.

RAM MANOHAR LOHIA NATIONAL LAW

UNIVERSITY

Rough Draft on :- Hate Speech And Communal

Violence

SUBMITTED BY: UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF:

SPARSH YADAV Dr. ALKA SINGH

ROLL NO: 146 ENGLISH TEACHER

SECTION ‘B’ DR. RAM MANOHAR LOHIYA

B.A. LLB (Hons.), SEMESTER I NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY

 Table Of Contents

1) Title

2) Aim

3) Statement Of Problem

4) Overview of Literature

5) Conceptual Framework

6) Research Questions

7) Research Methods

8) Implication

9) Summary

10) References
Title :- The title of my project is to throw light on instances of
Hate Speech and Communal Violence in India.

Aim :- The aim of the project is to find out the probable reasons
behind this display of hate speech, the mediums through which it is
often exhibited, and why people react differently to hate speech
presented in different forms and degrees and resort to violence , e.g.,
why citizens would throw a riot for a political figure displaying some
form of hate speech, as opposed to a young schoolboy.

Statement Of Problem :- Hate speech and Communal

Violence, among other things, is one of the most pressing issues in
India today. The fact that our society and our nation are so culturally
diverse may often lead to discrimination and cultural bias in one form
or another.

Overview of Literature :- In the book Votes and Violence

(2005) by Steven I. Wilkinson, argues that politicians both cause
them and, more importantly, have the power to prevent them, through
their control of the state governments responsible for law and order.
Ornit Shani's Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The
Violence in Gujarat examines the rise of Hindu nationalism, asking
why distinct groups of Hindus, deeply divided by caste, mobilised on
the basis of unitary Hindu nationalism. Using evidence from
communal violence in Gujarat, Shani argues that the growth of
communalism was not simply a result of Hindu-Muslim antagonisms,
but was driven by intensifying tensions among Hindus, nurtured by
changes in the relations between castes and associated state policies.

Conceptual Framework :- Hate speech touches on

contested issues of dignity, free expression, whereas communal
violence on liberty and democracy.This project outlines key
conceptual issues focussing on the tension between hate speech and
freedom of expression. It examines how the national and regional
legal instruments address this tension, and how the owners of new
private spaces for expression seek to regulate what they variously see
as hate speech. It is these diverse frameworks that often form a
context and serve as points of reference for social responses to emerge
and operate.

Research Questions :-
1) How does hate speech affect local communities?
2) What can we do to prevent the spread of hate-motivated
behaviour?
3) Does the State promote Communal Violence for electoral reasons?

Research Methods :- This report foregrounds issues of hate

speech and communal violence and social responses to these
phenomenons in India. Empirical references serve as background to
this broader task. The research strategy of this report combined
multiple techniques for data collection and analysis. The research
began with literature review of various books covering the incidents
of hate speech and communal violence. Given the novelty of the
phenomenon under investigation and its fast evolving nature, the
literature review also included non-academic articles published by
experts on their blogs and in specialist publications and major online
newspapers and magazines.

Implication :- This project can have huge implications on the

masses , an individual’s mentality and those who indulge in activity
of delivering hate speech. Besides psychological implications, this
project also brings into light the need of stringent laws to punish those
found guilty of delivering hate speech for personal benefits and vote
bank. Also there is a breaking down realization that such people are
traitors of this country.

Summary :- . Hate speech is an extremely colloquial term that is

defined differently, yet based upon the same principle, in different
countries. Secularism is a utopian state of mind that will never be
completely accepted and followed by the people of Indian society,
possibly owing to the gravity of pre-existing rivalry between
religions, cultures and classes. The society is too entrenched in its
separate values and beliefs that it refuses to consider the existence of
any others and the possibility that the other beliefs may be equally
valid. In fact, secularism is a concept that will never completely and
universally be accepted by people in any society in any country,
owing to the versatility of it interpretations.

References :-
1) Alam, Javeed. 2001. ‘Inter-community life in Hyderabad:
Reconfigurations’. Paper presented at the conference on
‘Communities, Borders and Cultures’, at South Asia Institute,
Heidelberg University, Germany.
2) Amin, Shahid. 2002. ‘On retelling the Muslim conquest of
North India’ in Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh (eds.):
History and the present (23-43). Delhi:Permanent Black.
3) http://www.cprindia.org
4) Wikipedia.org