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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Main Author: Ghassem-Fachandi, Parvis (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: 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

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505 0 |a 1. "Why do you leave? fight for us!" -- 2. Word and image -- 3. The Gujarat pogrom -- 4. The lack of Muslim vulnerability -- 5. Vibrant vegetarian Gujarat -- 6. Ahimsa, Gandhi, and the Angry Hindu -- 7. Split city body -- 8. Heterogeneity and the nation 
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