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Literature is believed to be a reflection of lived experiences of the past and the present. In this sense, how the acts of communal violence have been recorded, projected and narrated warrant an in-depth analysis in order to create a public discussion and opinion about the barbaric attitude of the perpetrators and obliviousness of the civil society. The very discourse of the writers and activists about the communal violence always depend upon the religious and political ideologies they endorse. So, the modes of narration of the communal violence differ from one author to another author. In this study, the analysis starts from the discourse of minority identity and the discrimination based on the religious difference and the reason behind the prevailing The texts written based on the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom and 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom will be well introduced and analyzed in detail will be analyzed in the light of the theoretical concepts of Foucault, Louis Althusser and Antonio Gramsci will be employed to study the literary works written about the human rights violations. An attempt will be made to explicit how violence has been used in its various dimensions for constructing the hegemonic power upon the social, cultural and economic life of the minority subjects. Legal lacks within the existing system that paved way to the human rights violation against the religious minority groups. The unanswered issues in uniting various religious and cultural groups as a nation and its consequences that led to historical errors so the This ends in the dissatisfaction of certain religious and minority groups because of the process of nationalization. So the construction of Socio- political ideology is based on or favor to majority community. Literature in any given context responds to the existing clashes, conflicts and oppressions in various manners. In this context, the vulnerable conditions of certain minorities like Sikhs and Muslims experienced the massive human rights violations in the form of pogrom because they were number and are vulnerable to communal threat, oppression and need for a society to constructed with majority (religious) conscious in a secular, republic and democratic nation. Another point in continuation of this communal polarization is targeting the Sikhs and Muslim minorities which was the horrible communal violence followed by the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984 and Godhra riot in 2002 and how the pogrom was meticulously planned and executed by the state. Through this kind of human rights violations the sentiments and political power sustained by the ruling class. Influence of colonial rule and the systems violating the human rights and the states remuneration and rehabilitation treatment to the victims of anti-Sikh pogrom and Gujarat pogrom. The study also focusses on the so-called justice provided to the terribly affected Minority communities.

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