‘Measure for Measure’: Lynching Deaths in West Bengal (A Sociological Study)

A discernible voice in sociology says, modernization is often a bane than a boon in many developing societies around the world.  In an age of imperialist globalization, such an argument development of underdevelopment upheld quite some time ago is one of the landmark views in this context.  Modernization has many facets and more importantly, some of these are often at loggerheads.  An important element of modernization is the spread of basic education.  Spread of basic education initiates a desire to have better livelihood and higher income opportunity-which in turn necessitates more availability of higher income potential.  In the absence of such opportunity, an inevitable outcome is the growing restlessness and disharmonic trends, a vital precondition for incidents of lynching deaths in West Bengal.  Similarly, modernization has made men to have interface with western media which aroused a strong impetus in favour of consumerism.  But owing to lack of adequate income, such desire often remains unfulfilled, making men to become frustrated.  Again, a vital component for the outbreak of lynching deaths in West Bengal.  The book analysis details out why lynching deaths are occurring unabated from a sociological perspective.