TY - BOOK AU - Ghassem-Fachandi,Parvis TI - Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu nationalism and anti-Muslim violence in India SN - 9781400842599 AV - DS485.G88 G48 2012eb U1 - 954/.750531 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Gujarat Riots, India, 2002 KW - Pogroms KW - India KW - Gujarat KW - Ethnic conflict KW - Muslims KW - Violence against KW - Inde KW - Gujarāt KW - Conflits ethniques KW - Musulmans KW - Violence envers KW - HISTORY KW - Asia KW - India & South Asia KW - bisacsh KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - fast KW - Fundamentalismus KW - gnd KW - Gewalttätigkeit KW - Hindu KW - Hinduismus KW - Kommunalismus KW - Muslim KW - Unruhen KW - idszbz KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=437370 ER -