It has spread militancy among the Maharshtrian youth. There are various reasons for such conflicts mainly political and also economic in some cases. The developmental processes are quite uneven and leads to in-migration from rural to urban and from less developed urban to more developed urban areas. Thus one finds different religious and cultural groups jostling with each other in these urban areas. Thus one finds more conflict in Urban than rural areas.
Rural areas are more homogeneous and less amenable to such conflicts.
Many urban areas have become real hotbeds of ethnic or religious or cultural conflicts. Each religious or ethnic group wants to establish its own domination in a particular area and wants to cleanse it of other 'polluting' groups. And to mobilise members of their own group religious or cultural discourse is used thus creating strong prejudices in the minds of the other religious or cultural groups. It should, however, be noted that it is not a new phenomenon. Throughout history there have been such migrations from one country to another and from one area within a country to other areas.