This timely volume analyses the attitude and orientation of policetowards
minorities in India's plural, democratic, secular societyand its behaviour while
dealing with them as groups particularly incommunal riot situations. The essays
written from diversesocio-cultural perspectives take into account the expected
role oflaw enforcement agencies in plural democratic societies and
Indiasconstitutional framework, also how far these agencies have stood upto that
role and deviated from the same. The essays take intoaccount the colonial
heritage, structure, training and workingconditions of the police agencies to
determine their attitude andbehaviour. Role of police has not been evaluated in
isolation butin the framework of socio-political structures and processes.
Thereports of various commission and studies