Abstract
This research article aims at understanding the phenomena of
mob lynching in India and Pakistan. Over the years, this problem
is alarmingly on the rise in the two countries under study.
Understanding this issue and finding out solutions is really the
need of hour. This article explains this phenomenon with a
theoretic-empirical interest. It studied cases of mob lynching. Data
on India has been accessed from existing data sites; while, those
on Pakistan, has been generated by this research. Rene` Girard’s
sociological understanding of mob violence as a scapegoating
mechanism informs this study. This research argues that mob
lynching is a process of marginalisation of certain minorities. It
has, as a result, been found out that pattern in both the countries
are similar, only that the actors are different.
Khurshid Ali Singay. (2020) Social Marginalisation and Scapegoating: A Study of Mob Lynching in Pakistan and India, Pakistan Social Sciences Review, Volume 4, Issue 2.
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