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 |
Table of Contents:
- 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