Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ19250

Communal violence in India is one of biggest threat for national integration. Communalism has increased the gap among different religions communities of India. Communal atmosphere in India gives a sense of insecurity to life of people. Not only development is hampered but also peace and harmony in societies. Many political parties always try to maintain a sense of communal fear among different sections of religion because it benefit them in election and help the political parties in mobilising the people . A nation can never grow peacefully until and unless peace does not exist in societies. From the era of colonialism, we are witnessing communal riot in India. British’s divide and rule policy started the communal violence in India. It indirectly resulted in partition of India and formation of a new state Pakistan. Even after independence we are continuously facing communal violence in our societies. It is a matter of tragedy for us that even after 70 years of independence we are not able to come out from communal violence. There are numerous region for persistence of communal violence in India like some prejudices against each other’s religion, no cultural synthesis among different religions, use of religion by political parties for gaining power. People have to understand that ,communal violence is not going to benefit them by any means. It will ultimately led to degradation of societies and development of nation. India’s beauties lie in religious plurality not in communal clash.