India, March 16 -- Fear is a natural, universal and intense emotion rooted in human survival. The English philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes opined that fear is the fundamental, organising passion of human existence, suffuses and shapes human life, is both the sole origin of civil society and the only reliable means of its preservation. The English social anthropologist David Parkin, the American historian and political theorist Corey Robin, the German sociologist Norbert Elias and the English social researcher Agnes Pearl Jephcott have also highlighted the role of fear in regulating and sustaining institutions and societies. Yet institutional scholars have often paid limited attention to the role of fear in maintaining inst...