Pogrom in Gujarat [ Hindu nationalism and anti-Muslim violence in India
In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death. The ruling nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party blamed Gujarat's entire Muslim minority for the tragedy and incited fellow...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press ,
2012
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| Online Access: | http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/iviewer/PUPB0001556/userkey/pc/1/0/read.html |
| Summary: | In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death. The ruling nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party blamed Gujarat's entire Muslim minority for the tragedy and incited fellow Hindus to exact revenge. The resulting violence left more than one thousand people dead--most of them Muslims--and tens of thousands more displaced from their homes. Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi witnessed the bloodshed up close. In Pogrom in Gujarat, he provides a riveting ethnographic account of collective |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : ill. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-321) and index |
| ISBN: | 9780691151762 9780691151779 9781400842599 |