Pogrom in Gujarat : Hindu nationalism and anti-Muslim violence in India / Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi.

By:

Ghassem-Fachandi, Parvis

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400842599
140084259X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pogrom in Gujarat.DDC classification:

954/.750531 23

LOC classification:

DS485.G88 G48 2012eb

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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.

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.

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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 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.

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