Author: Arnav Debnath
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.70798/Bijmrd/03020011
Abstract: The category of state violence in its crude form may sometimes conflate into a more nuanced one that emerged from a different and conditional category of political working deep within the realm of a particular society. The incident of violence in Hariharpara, a block in the district of Murshidabad, resembled with such a kind of political violence quarter century ago, in 1992, acquiring its political nature from the category of ‘party society’. This article, however, attempts to understand the background, course and causes of that unprecedented incident of political violence in a democratic state of independent India through the testimony of an eye-witness of the violence before the ‘Inquiry Commission’ who himself was both an indirect victim and an ‘accused’ of the same.
Keywords: Political violence, party-society, testimony, eye-witness, Hariharpara, HNKP.
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