Pogrom in Gujarat : Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghassem-Fachandi, Parvis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Unruhen
Muslim
Kommunalismus
Hinduismus
Hindu
Gewalttätigkeit
Fundamentalismus
Pogroms.
Ethnic conflict.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Musulmans > Violence envers > Inde > Gujarāt.
Conflits ethniques > Inde > Gujarāt.
Pogroms > Inde > Gujarāt.
Muslims > Violence against > India > Gujarat.
Ethnic conflict > India > Gujarat.
Pogroms > India > Gujarat.
Gujarat Riots, India, 2002.
Gujarat.
India > Gujarat.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (344 pages).
ISBN:9781400842599

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