Abstract/Sommario: The violence against "outsiders" in Assam and Maharashtra by a Railway recruitment test and exacerbated by parochial political forces, highlights among other things a consequence of the market-oriented economic policies - a drastic shrinking of employment opportunities. Use of force to assert the claim of "locals" for preferential treatment in recruitment to the Northeast Frontier Railway in Guwahati leads to a blacklash in Bihar, and then violence is let loose on Hindi-speaking people ...; [Leggi tutto...]
The violence against "outsiders" in Assam and Maharashtra by a Railway recruitment test and exacerbated by parochial political forces, highlights among other things a consequence of the market-oriented economic policies - a drastic shrinking of employment opportunities. Use of force to assert the claim of "locals" for preferential treatment in recruitment to the Northeast Frontier Railway in Guwahati leads to a blacklash in Bihar, and then violence is let loose on Hindi-speaking people across Assam