This chapter describes the relationship between democracy and violence in India and analyses the political process of violent conflicts. It examines three types of violent conflict: religious riots, left-wing extremist movements and massacres by private armies. These kinds of violence are suitable cases for use in considering the relationship between democracy and violence in India. The chapter uses the case study of the state of Bihar which is especially infamous for violence. The Bhagalpur riots were the largest-scale religious riots in the history of Bihar since independence. In Bihar, politicians and political parties recognised that religious riots could severely damage their political future. The criminalisation of politics is usually condemned as a crisis of democracy from a different point of view, it also can be said that democracy has the power to absorb violent elements and violent conflicts. An experiment of Bihar indicates that Indian democracy has the possibility to overcome violence in future.