Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India
by
Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
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...