Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in IndiaIn 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 violence in which the doctrine of ahimsa--or nonviolence--and the closely associated practices of vegetarianism became implicated by legitimating what they formally disavow. |
Contents
List of Figures | 1 |
Why do you leave? Fight for us | 31 |
Figures | 54 |
Word and Image | 59 |
Frontispiece Indistinction ii | 79 |
Reading Western Times | 89 |
The Gujarat Pogrom | 93 |
Gulbarg Society inner courtyards March 11 2002 | 108 |
Split City Body | 213 |
Under Ahmedabad bridges | 215 |
Welcome to the Hindu Nation of Karnavati | 224 |
Permanent police post | 230 |
Adolescent street temple | 240 |
Hulladia Hanuman | 244 |
Destroyed Isanpur Dargah 16th century | 245 |
Magical remainders on traffic island | 247 |
Noorani Masjid Naroda Patiya April 5 2002 | 116 |
Jay Shri Ram Incorporation through destruction | 117 |
The Lack of Muslim Vulnerability | 123 |
Surgical strikes | 129 |
Vibrant Vegetarian Gujarat | 153 |
Mr Shahkahari | 157 |
Dark consumption | 160 |
Ahimsa Gandhi and the Angry Hindu | 185 |
Violence Gandhi | 186 |
Nonviolence Gandhi | 187 |
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