Bulldozer (In)Justice in India: Encountering Demolition and Dispossession
Bulldozer (In)Justice in India: Encountering Demolition and Dispossession From the 1949 Babri Conspiracy to the 2025 Waqf Amendment — The Impunity Loop Posted on 30th May, 2026 (GMT 01:35 hrs) ABSTRACT The article contends that “Bulldozer Justice”—the BJP government’s targeted demolitions of Muslim homes, businesses, and religious sites—represents not mere administrative excess or electoral tactics but the latest manifestation of a coherent seventy-five-year ethnocratic project rooted in the 1949 Babri Masjid occupation. It identifies a persistent structural impunity loop (extra-legal action, state complicity, retroactive judicial or legislative legitimation, and perpetrator reward) driving Hindu majoritarian statecraft, linking the 1949 conspiracy through the Supreme Court’s 2019 verdict to the 2025 Waqf Amendment Act. Drawing on Amnesty International’s documentation of 128 targeted demolitions, Housing and Land Rights Network data showing 738,438 displacements in 2022–23, V-Dem...