Fact Finding Reports
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“As Ranajit Guha suggests, each event has unique context, character, and composition of participants. The Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism undertakes fact-finding missions to go deeper than media coverage and law enforcement reports in order to better understand the impetus for communal incidents so communities may come together, pick up the pieces, and begin to heal.” – Adv. Irfan Engineer
Jharkhand, Mob Lynching and Marginalization of Adivasis
Introduction: Tabrez Ansari, 24 years old, Muslim youth was tied to a pole in Saraikela, Jharkhand and lynched by a mob which demanded that Ansari chant “Jai Shri Ram” and“Jai Hanuman”. He…
Assam NRC- a humanitarian crisis looming large
CSSS Fact Finding Team “Citizenship is man’s basic right for it is nothing less than the right to have rights. Remove this priceless possession and there remains a stateless person,…
Aurangabad Communal Violence Fact Finding Report – 2018
A note by Irfan Engineer Communalism and Development Communal politics has been viewed from different perspectives. The left primarily regards religion as opium of people, instilling false consciousness, giving them…
Harsul Fact Finding Report
Harsul is a town 50 kilometers away from Nashik in Maharashtra. It is also near Trimbakeshwar where the Kumbh Mela was organized this year. The town has a majority of…
Baduria and Bashirhat Fact Finding Report
Introduction: July witnessed communal tensions in the state of West Bengal. Baduria and Basirhat in 24 North Parganas were the epicenter of violence over an objectionable facebook post on Prophet…