Commission of Inquiry
Definition
A body appointed by a government after a riot or major incident of violence to establish facts and recommend accountability, distinct from a criminal trial.
Related terms
- Caste Atrocity
- A criminal act committed against a member of a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe because of their caste status, addressed under a...
- Communal Riot
- Organised collective violence between religious communities, typically following a precipitating incident, rumour and mobilisation sequence rather than occurring spontaneously.
- In-Group Out-Group Conflict
- A social psychological dynamic in which identification with one's own group increases hostility and readiness to act against a group defined as...
- Institutionalised Riot System
- Paul Brass's model describing how certain towns develop a standing network of actors, local politicians, criminal gangs and sympathetic officials, who can...
- Sectarian Conflict
- Sustained collective violence between groups defined by religious or ethnic identity, used as a comparative category alongside India's communal and caste conflict.