ABSTRACT

The devaluation of female life, and the glorification of violence against women that is structurally condoned and socially permissible, lead to tragic forms of gendered and sexualised violence in the public, family and political sphere. The creation of the postcolony in India has necessitated and induced prodigious violence and attendant human rights violations that have torn asunder meanings of home and understandings of history. Massified violence in internal conflict is synchronic to issues of minoritisation and religionised aggression. Diverse internal armed conflicts have taken place in north India and north-east and east India, in minority-prevalent states and areas and in Central India. Transitional justice refers to the steps societies take to address the sources and consequences of conflict and human rights abuses. Conflict violence fuses together states of militarisation and militancy, religionised aggression and minoritisation, and gendered and sexualised aggression that act and re-act upon each other.