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Pogrom in Gujarat, 2002: Neighborhood Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2013

Howard Spodek*
Affiliation:
Temple University
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The 2002 pogrom in the Indian state of Gujarat, and especially in its largest city, Ahmedabad, left about 1,000 Muslims dead in the city, another 1,000 dead in the state, and about 140,000 homeless, some of them still living in relief camps today. The killing, one of the worst in India since partition in 1947, drew responses of horror from across India and the world. Although the assault on Muslims followed an apparent (all the facts will never be known) assault on Hindu pilgrims travelling through the railway station at Godhra, in eastern Gujarat, in which fifty-nine Hindus burned to death, most observers have argued that the response was not commensurate with the attack, and, of course, it targeted not the criminals who may have set the fire, but a community of Muslims 100 miles away.

Type
Review Essays—South Asia
Copyright
Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 

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