R. C. Tripathi, R. Kumar, and V. N. Tripathi — When the Advantaged Feel Victimised: The Case of Hindus in India
23 published claims from this book.
- A majority, advantaged group reports feeling more victimised than the minority it once victimised.
- An advantaged Hindu majority reports stronger collective victimhood than the Muslim minority
- Asymmetrical power makes intergroup conflicts unsolvable by emotion regulation alone
- Collective victimhood drives Hindu revenge more than raw negative emotions do
- Collective victimhood drives revenge more than reconciliation in both groups
- Collective victimhood feelings suppress reconciliatory actions across both groups
- Collective victimhood predicts revenge reactions independent of its associated emotions.
- Dominant majority and the group it harmed show asymmetric victimhood dynamics.
- Elite political actors manufactured Hindu-Muslim religious identities to win electoral power.
- High ingroup identifiers recall disproportionately more victimization than perpetration by their group.
- Hindu victimhood arises from ingroup identity, not from relative disadvantage.
- Hindu victimhood claims run on historical memories, not discrete events.
- Hindu victimhood narratives rest on medieval Muslim invasions
- Macro-historical narratives can produce collective victimhood absent any present-day relative deprivation.
- Majority and minority revenge reactions are driven by different psychological factors
- Majority groups often narrate their history as victimised despite holding power
- Majority groups that regain status after long subordination remain unstudied
- Narrated victimhood, not raw emotion, drives revenge among the advantaged group.
- Negative emotions bind narratives of victimhood and consolidate ingroup identity.
- Perceived relative power predicts harsher expected reaction to norm violations
- Shared memories of past suffering cement ingroup solidarity and we–they boundaries.
- Survey respondents were urban middle-class Hindus and Muslims
- Victimisation among advantaged groups likely works differently than among minorities