Riots and after in Mumbai : chronicles of truth and reconciliation / Meena Menon.

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Menon, Meena

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9788132109396
8132109392

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Riots and after in Mumbai.DDC classification:

303.6230954792 23

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HV6485.I52 B66 2012eb

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Machine generated contents note: 1. City of Gold -- 2. Cow Protection, Temple, and Mosque Disputes Go Way Back: A Chronicle of Communal Riots in Bombay City -- 3. Jogeshwari Riots: Old Wounds, New Ghettos -- 4. Extended Ghettos: Naya Nagar -- 5. Displacement and Polarization -- 6. Loss of Livelihood -- 7. Perceptions of Justice -- 8. Conclusion.

Summary: Riots and After in Mumbai provides a synoptic record of events in Mumbai, focusing essentially on the history of riots in the city. Using this framework, it attempts to understand the sociopolitical and cultural realities of present-day Mumbai through a collection of narratives of the people affected by the communal riots of 1992-93. The author uses a novel approach, combining historical records from the pre-Independence era (1893-1945) and personal interviews of both Muslims and Hindus living in the city. The book also looks into the political manipulations that ordinary people of both commun.

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Riots and After in Mumbai provides a synoptic record of events in Mumbai, focusing essentially on the history of riots in the city. Using this framework, it attempts to understand the sociopolitical and cultural realities of present-day Mumbai through a collection of narratives of the people affected by the communal riots of 1992-93. The author uses a novel approach, combining historical records from the pre-Independence era (1893-1945) and personal interviews of both Muslims and Hindus living in the city. The book also looks into the political manipulations that ordinary people of both commun.

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