A Study On Ethnic Conflict In The Process Of Urbanization And Response In Contemporary India

Urbanization is one of the symbols of the progress of human society. Since the industrial revolution, the human society stepped into the road of urbanization development in the true sense, which has been two hundred years of history. Since independence, India has gradually established a complete industrial system and industry got great development and urbanization also has obtained certain achievement. But compared with the process of world’s urbanization, the development of urbanization in India is quite slow. At the same time, a lot of problems in urbanization in India are produced. Urbanization exacerbates regional disparities which exist originally. More and more population movements produce some conflicts inevitably. India is a nation which is multi-ethnic and multi-religious, there are ethnic tensions originally. What’s more, ethnic contradiction is more prominent in the process of urbanization. Some ethnic contradictions are left over by history and some are caused by religious. Urbanization further promoted people’s awakening of consciousness which involve politics, economy, culture and education, urbanization makes the disputes of interests more obvious in India and the competitions which involve the economy, employment and other aspects in different nations are sharper. India’s ethnic conflicts appear more frequent and more complex because of the deviation of government decision-making and competitions of interests among parties. This situation makes social unrest and hinders the development of the economy. In this process, the government of India is also looking for solutions constantly and hoping to deal with a good balance between urbanization developments and ethnic conflicts, such as easing regional economic development and the imbalance between the urban and rural areas, promoting the employment, persisting in the road of secularism and strengthening political dialogue mediation and other ways.The full text is made up of seven parts altogether:Introduction part mainly describes the reason and significance of topic selection, research status at home and abroad, the theoretical basis, the methods of research, innovations, difficult point of the paper,the research mentality and so on.The first part mainly discusses the process of urbanization and the motivations, the characteristics and some of the major problems of urbanization development in contemporary India.The second part mainly summarizes the India’s national conditions and characteristics, as well as the changes of original national structure of India brought from urbanization.The third part discusses several forms of ethnic conflict in the process of urbanization in India, it mainly involves the unbalanced development of ethnic conflicts, population flow, ethnic conflict caused by migration and difference of religious culture.The fourth part analyzes the main reasons for the ethnic conflicts in the process of urbanization in India, it mainly includes factor of problems left over by history, the factor of government decision-making deviation, the factor of parties competition and national interests disputes as well as cultural factors and so on.The fifth part expounds the countermeasures of the government of India, Mainly relying on the development of the methods to develop the economy, solving the imbalance between regions, urban and rural and promoting the employment, adhering to the road of secularism, improving the lives of vulnerable groups and so on.Epilogue part illustrates the main point of the article and summarizes this article.