Interethnic Relations and Conflicts: Recurring Patterns of Targeted Violence against Religious Minorities in India

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

The paper critically analyses the claim of legitimacy that Indian State makes when it comes to HRs? How HRs are being seen as a certificate of legitimacy? It also exposes the forces that try to de-legitimize HRs to further their own vested interests?

Section

• 28. Human Rights

Chair

• Aftab AFTAB Alam, University of Delhi

Participants

• Biswajit Mohanty, Deshbandhu College

• Muqtedar Khan, University of Delaware

• Nassef Manabilang Adiong, University of the Philippines Diliman

• Dipti Tamang

• Yasmeen Jahan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India