Riot Commission
Definition
A commission of inquiry appointed under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952 after a major riot to establish facts, with findings that are recommendatory rather than binding.
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...
- Collective Violence
- Violence carried out by an offender acting as a member of a group against a victim chosen for their group membership, rather...
- 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.