Table of Contents List of Cases and Statutes ; Introduction ; • Research Methodology ; Meaning of Communal Violence ; • Communalism and its growth ; • Relation between Communal Ideology and Communal Violence ; • Causes of Communal Violence ; Secularism and Communal Violence ; • Secularism and Communal Violence Concept of secularism in the Indian context; • Purpose of incorporating 42nd amendment; • Challenges to secularism: how is it endangered? ; Relationship between communalism and secularism ; • Future of secularism ; Means to Overcome Communal Violence ; • Value education ; • Reforming police system; • Enactment of the bill on Communal Violence ; • Mixed and Cosmopolitan living ; • Removal of poverty and backwardness; • Role of Media ; The Case for a Specific Legislation to response to Communal Violence ; • Existence of Communal Violence in India since Independence ; • Failure of State Machinery ; • Recommendations and Reports of various Committees and Commissions; • The failure of Contours of Law and Justice ; • The Aftermath of Communal Violence, its effects on vulnerable sections of the society ; • • The existing law and gaps in Indian legal jurisprudence ; • Failure of state to fulfil its obligations ; Communal Violence Bill: Means to end impunity ; • Special features of the bill 2005, 2011; • Various developments regarding bill (2005 - 2013) ; • Bill of 2005 ; • Bill of2013 ; Conclusion (way ahead) ; Bibliography ; Annexure ·A·.