No gentlemen in this army

The assassination of Brahmeshwar Singh alias Mukhiya, founder of Ranvir Sena, the dreaded private army of upper caste Bhumihars, raises fears of the revival of “Barbaric Bihar”. From the first major massacre of Dalits in Belchi in 1977 to the killings in Mianpur in 2000 by socially dominant castes and classes, the careers of the violent, antisocial, anti-Naxal commanders of caste sena reveal the blurred distinction between crime and politics in contemporary Bihar. 

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