Crowds and Politics

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it’s individuals. These emotions, passions and feelings can be called

“affects” to the extent that individuals of the crowds produce, transmit,

circulate, and receive them socially through physical contact or through

various media. The movement of affects through this socioeconomic

scale of production and distribution is interactive. These particular

affects can have a direct impact on the people outside the crowd as

well. The rise of these various emotions and feelings can increase the

levels of anxiety among the people in UP. So increase of media

activism, social media count campaigns, signature campaigns, etc., are

more likely to contribute in the long-term to the destabilization of

society, nation, economy and State. It’s quite a big chance to become a

fight for rights and privileges and suspension of the human rights of

other people, etc. Liberalism may go and also democracy as some

people want to force their ideas of policy onto silent others without any

real social consensus. It would be better if moderate minds doing their

job of bringing thoughtful change and that might not happen.Crowds and riots

There is only a slightest difference between the crowds and mobs.

Where crowd is a group of people whose members consist of individual

thoughts on the other hand a mob is a group of people with one

common thought. It is ultimately the crowds that could possibly and

eventually going to transform into a mob. For example we can have a

crowd gathered at a cricket match as soon as these group of people

decide to charge the field, they could eventually turn into a mob. So, in

some contexts it is no wrong to address the crowd as a mob. But

anyway it need not necessarily to be true that every crowd transforms

into a mob they might stay with their individual thoughts with getting

on to a common thought. Mob is an important form of acting crowd. It

is so appropriate to say that a mob is an emotionally aroused crowd

bent on violent action. Mobs have their own leaders and are single

minded in their aggressive intent. They impose strong conformity on

their members. Like any other crowd mob is particularly temporary and

un stable in character. The mob has its own limited but immediate

objectives and concentrates on its realization. The Purposive and Active

crowds (mobs) are the crowds that are deliberately planned by some

interested parties to achieve their own predeceased purpose. For

example, Opponents of a political leader purposefully attacking a big

rally; or leaders of the opposition and trade union leaders direct their

followers to attack government offices, public properties, etc. The

Confused and Random crowds(mobs) are not deliberately created, nor

there do any attempt in them on the part of the leaders to give

direction for their followers. Due to confusion a crowd may get

converged into a mob. For example a ferocious bull may, all of a

sudden, rush towards a big gathering of people who have assembled in

a field to listen to a political speech. Due to fear and confusion people

may become panicky. Some may consider it to be the handiwork of thepolitical opponents and may resort to violence in a bid to register their

protest against it. Sudden outbursts of people and unanticipated

communal disturbances, can also be cited here as examples.

On the other hand the Riot is another important aspect of crowd. It is a

violent and destructive collective outburst. A riot is the action of a

violently aggressive, destructive crowd. Rioting crowds and the mobs

might look alike in many aspects but they both are vividly different

from each other. Their behavior is less structured, purposive and

unified. On the other hand, the mob usually has some specific target —

lynching a victim attacking a police vehicle, burning down a foreign

embassy, ransacking the property of an anti national smuggler. It could

be said that riot involves behavior which has the main objective of

creating nothing but disorder. In a democratic country like India the

mobs and protests are quite common. Culturally unique features of the

protests and riots are bandhs (a version of a strike), hartals (a version of

a municipal shut-down), dharnas (a version of swarming). These strikes

are also the prominent features of the crowds. It’s these strikes that

keeps the crowds alive. The scope of expansion of the crowds also

depends on the intensity of these crowds. These strikes are the only

reason due to which we could be able to feel the excitement and the

energy of the crowds. No matter if we are directly present in the strikes

or watching it on the television. Even the audience of the