Policy-Making and Connections to Violence: A Case Study of India

This paper explores the role of identity-based, or discriminatory, policy in facilitating the outbreak of ethnopolitical violence in India. A discriminatory policy is the merging of communal group identity with the state apparatus. It is argued that as the Indian government enacts policies beneficial or discriminatory to particular identity groups within the country, other groups feel threatened. Groups who feel disadvantaged by the policy may begin to fear for their own security and political interests motivating them to rebel. When focusing on Indian policy and ethnopolitical violence during the period 1945 to 2000, the authors find that, although there are many cases of seemingly spontaneous episodes of violence, when identitybased policies do occur, they are often followed by violence and/or protest

Letter to Susan Csaky regarding award of a Lucile Elliott Scholarship, May 20, 1975

A letter from Frederic Pearson to Susan Csaky thanking the Scholarship Committee for awarding Pearson with the Lucile Elliott Scholarship

Letter to William Younger regarding the Lucile Elliott Scholarship, May 20, 1975

A letter from Frederic Pearson to William Younger accepting the Lucile Elliott Scholarship awarded to Pearson

Letter to William C. Younger regarding award of the Lucile Elliott Scholarship, May 20, 1975

A letter from Frederic Pearson to William C. Younger accepting the Lucile Elliott Scholarship awarded to him