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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ghassem-Fachandi, Parvis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gujarat Riots, India, 2002.

Pogroms--India--Gujarat.

Pogroms.

Ethnic conflict--India--Gujarat.

Ethnic conflict.

Muslims--Violence against--India--Gujarat.

Muslims.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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 violence in which the doctrine of ahimsa--or nonviolence--and the closely associated practices of vegetarianism became implicated by legitimating what they formally disavow. Ghassem-Fachandi looks at how newspapers, movies, and other media helped to fuel the pogrom. He shows how the vegetarian sensibilities of Hindus and the language of sacrifice were manipulated to provoke disgust against Muslims and mobilize the aspiring middle classes across caste and class differences in the name of Hindu nationalism. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of Gujarat's culture and politics and the close ties he shared with some of the pogrom's sympathizers, Ghassem-Fachandi offers a strikingly original interpretation of the different ways in which Hindu proponents of ahimsa became complicit in the very violence they claimed to renounce.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Introduction

Chapter 1. "Why do you leave? Fight for us!"

CHAPTER 2. Word and Image

Chapter 3. The Gujarat Pogrom

Chapter 4. The Lack of Muslim Vulnerability

Chapter 5. Vibrant Vegetarian Gujarat

Chapter 6. Ahimsa, Gandhi, and the Angry Hindu

Chapter 7. Split City Body

Chapter 8. Heterogeneity and the Nation

Postscript

Notes

Abbreviations

Glossary of Indian Terms

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613589842

9781280494611

1280494611

9781400842599

140084259X

OCLC:

778455378