Persecuted Case Study

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Q1# What group of people was being persecuted? Recently, India has been experiencing something nearly identical to the Salem witch trials, which occured in the late 1600’s. This event which has been occurring in India since the early 1990’s, appears to target widowed older women or women among the lower class. However, although rare, victims could also include males or children. Ryan Shaffer implies that these accusations were generally due to disputes over land, local politics, and or issues with disease (Shaffer).

Q#2 What group of people(or individual) led the persecution? The events in India have found a foothold due to the lack of development of ideas and technology in rural India. The accusations of the dakan, or witches, stem mainly …show more content…
One of these reasons, according to sociologist Soma Chaudhuri, is because it provided people, males in particular, “ an outlet...to vent frustrations over their own lack of power” (Yasmin). People who were accused of being witches were also persecuted because when a person, mainly women, was accused, the opportunity to seize their land arose. In addition to this, they could also be persecuted for reasons such as personal scores, rejection of someone’s sexual advances, and or family disputes. On an even larger scale, reasons for victimization could be because the accused questioned the social norms of their society (McCoy). People were also persecuted because of cases of disease, and even death of crops or livestock (Shaffer). This persecution was undoubtedly influenced by different constituents. One of the factors that influenced this persecution is “connected to the prevalence of patriarchal attitudes and an opposition to women's rights over property” (Mukherjee). According to Mukherjee, another factor that influenced this persecution and caused it to happen in the first place is mainly due to the lack of education, and poor health services (Mukherjee). Because of this Indians “... turn to superstition to cure illness, find love, and rationalize bad events” (Shaffer). Another reason that caused this persecution to happen in the first place is …show more content…
Among these horrendous deeds was coercing the accused to eat feces and sometimes even human flesh. Oftentimes the victims were also forced to drink urine and or chicken blood. Reported incidents of women in witch cases also detail how alleged witches were forced to walk through the village with no clothing and in doing so faced gang-rape. Other common practices included cutting off the accused women breast’s, breaking her teeth, and or tonsuring (shaving) the head (McCoy). Offspring of the accused were also “socially ostracised and even put to death” (Mukherjee). Women who were accused and managed to avoid death were oftentimes forced to flee and faced abuse for the remainder of their lives
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