Police Strength and Ethnic Conflict: Effect of Increase in Number of Police Personnel on Riots (original) (raw)

2017

Abstract

Violent ethnic conflicts have been a part of the history of independent India. The very beginning of this 'new era' in the subcontinent left millions dead due to violent communal clashes which broke out as a response to the partition of the subcontinent. Since then, time and again the issue of communal clashes haunts the memory of our history. My aim in this paper is to study the methods employed for controlling riots. My main focus will be on the strength of armed personnel (civil Police) in trying to control or prevent the spread of violence. Essentially, I ask whether increasing the number of police personnel affects the instances of riots and the number of people killed due to it. So far I have not been able to establish a relationship between the two. In my analysis, I have used the Varshney-Wilkinson dataset on Hindu-Muslim riots and merged it with the Census data from 1961 to 1995. The coefficients of our estimates were insignificant.

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