How would one account for differences in reporting rates? The book you cite seems completely unrelated to this claim. I.e., citation needed.
Anecdotally, this seems insane to me. In 2 years in India I observed more violent eve teasing than in 30 years in the US. Just talking to women, you get wildly different stories in both places - in the US it's "someone unattractive asked me out and I felt uncomfortable, almost like a rape", whereas in India it's "meh, he just grabbed my ass and walked off, no biggie".
Now it could be the case that upper class Indians (the main folks I dealt with) are just far more violent than middle class Americans, and that the masses of poor Indians are vastly more peaceful than their upper class compatriots. But that does seem a bit unlikely to me.
Further anecdote: in the US, reporters have a hard time finding rape poster girls who aren't blatantly making stuff up (e.g. mattress girl, duke stripper or rolling stone girl). In India, most of the rape poster girls are dead or badly injured.
"whereas in India it's "meh, he just grabbed my ass and walked off, no biggie". Seriously that is only upper class and only happen in upper class places. Believe me if that happens in an area where middle class is there the guy who did that will get public merciless beating. Any of my know circles will surely slap the guy in the same place. I think in India domestic violence is the huge thing for girls. Still not even in educated families we overrule women just like that and we hide behind the name of culture.
I'm not sure how plausible I find this. The (admittedly self-serving) perception within Delhi is that most of the bad stuff happening there is done by villagers from Bihar and UP, not by native Delhiites.
Most of the big city cases that I've read about (e.g., Uber rape case, 2012 gang rape) do fit that perception. So it would surprise me if things were somehow better in Bihar than in Delhi.
You're right. It seems that jsudhams is exhibiting a kind if ingroup bias. People of lower classes can believe that the upper classes use their wealth to strongarm people, and people of upper classes can believe that the lower class people have less to lose, and have easy links to gangs, so they can get away with criminal behaviour. Of course, it's all bull until it gets backed by data.
jsudhams wrote "Any of my know circles will surely slap the guy in the same place." But you know, this is true across all sectors of Indian society. Indians are generally rather prone to violence.
Anecdotally, this seems insane to me. In 2 years in India I observed more violent eve teasing than in 30 years in the US. Just talking to women, you get wildly different stories in both places - in the US it's "someone unattractive asked me out and I felt uncomfortable, almost like a rape", whereas in India it's "meh, he just grabbed my ass and walked off, no biggie".
Now it could be the case that upper class Indians (the main folks I dealt with) are just far more violent than middle class Americans, and that the masses of poor Indians are vastly more peaceful than their upper class compatriots. But that does seem a bit unlikely to me.
Further anecdote: in the US, reporters have a hard time finding rape poster girls who aren't blatantly making stuff up (e.g. mattress girl, duke stripper or rolling stone girl). In India, most of the rape poster girls are dead or badly injured.