Pogrom in Gujarat : : Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India / / Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. "Why do you leave? Fight for us!"
- CHAPTER 2. Word and Image
- Chapter 3. The Gujarat Pogrom
- Chapter 4. The Lack of Muslim Vulnerability
- Chapter 5. Vibrant Vegetarian Gujarat
- Chapter 6. Ahimsa, Gandhi, and the Angry Hindu
- Chapter 7. Split City Body
- Chapter 8. Heterogeneity and the Nation
- Postscript
- Notes
- Abbreviations
- Glossary of Indian Terms
- References
- Index