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Violence against Muslims in India

Index Violence against Muslims in India

Religious violence in India includes targeted violence against Muslims. [1]

127 relations: All India United Democratic Front, Anupam Kher, Assam, Assam Movement, Ayodhya, Ayodhya dispute, Babri Masjid, Bal Thackeray, Bangladesh, Bhagalpur, Bharatiya Janata Party, Bhiwandi, Bombay riots, Boycott, British Raj, Caste system in India, Censorship in India, Central Board of Film Certification, Communal violence, Cow vigilante violence in India since 2014, Cultural nationalism, Dalit, Delhi, Demography, Demolition of the Babri Masjid, Direct Action Day, Documentary film, Dubai, East Pakistan, Extremism, Final Solution (2003 film), Frontline (magazine), Genocide, Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, Globalization, Godhra train burning, Great Britain, Gujarat, Gulbarg Society massacre, Gyan Prakash, Hashimpura massacre, Hindu, Hindu nationalism, Hindutva, Hiteswar Saikia, Human Rights Watch, Human trafficking, Hyderabad State, Illegal immigration, ..., Indian annexation of Hyderabad, Indian Army, Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, Investment, Islam in India, Islamic state, Islamophobia, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Jammu and Kashmir, Jammu Division, Kashmir conflict, Mahallah, Maharashtra, Mallika Sarabhai, Meerut, Middle Ages, Moradabad, Mosque, Movie theater, Mumbai, Muradnagar, Muslim, Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent, Narendra Modi, Nellie massacre, Noakhali riots, Omar Khalidi, Pakistan, Partition of India, Parzania, Persecution of Hindus, Persecution of Muslims, Pogrom, Praveen Swami, Pro-Pakistan sentiment, Rakesh Sharma (filmmaker), Ram Puniyani, Rape in India, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Religious violence in India, Rhetoric, Riot, Saffron terror, Sectarian violence, Sessions Court, Shiv Sena, Social anthropology, Socioeconomics, Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, State terrorism, Sudipta Kaviraj, Sumit Ganguly, Supreme Court of India, Teesta Setalvad, Tehelka, Terrorism in India, Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, Thailand, The Truth: Gujarat 2002, Upper Assam Division, Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary, Violence against Christians in India, Vishva Hindu Parishad, West Bengal, World War II, 1950 East Pakistan riots, 1964 East Pakistan riots, 1969 Gujarat riots, 1970 Bhiwandi riots, 1980 Moradabad riots, 1984 Bhiwandi riot, 1985 Gujarat riots, 1987 Meerut communal riots, 1989 Bhagalpur violence, 2002 Gujarat riots, 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots. Expand index (77 more) »

All India United Democratic Front

The All India United Democratic Front (also known as AIUDF and Sarva Bharatiya Sanyukt Ganatantric Morcha) is a political party active in the Indian state of Assam The party was founded by Maulana Badruddin Ajmal in October 2005 and at that time, its name was Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF).

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Anupam Kher

Anupam Kher (born 7 March 1955) is an Indian actor and the current Chairman of Film and Television Institute of India.

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Assam

Assam is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Assam Movement

The Assam Movement (or Assam Agitation) (1979-1985) was a popular movement against illegal immigrants in Assam.

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Ayodhya

Ayodhya (IAST Ayodhyā), also known as Saketa, is an ancient city of India, believed to be the birthplace of Rama and setting of the epic Ramayana.

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Ayodhya dispute

The Ayodhya dispute is a political, historical and socio-religious debate in India, centred on a plot of land in the city of Ayodhya, located in Faizabad district, Uttar Pradesh.

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Babri Masjid

The Babri Masjid (translation: Mosque of Babur) was a mosque in Ayodhya, India.

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Bal Thackeray

Bal Keshav Thackeray (23 January 1926 – 17 November 2012) was an Indian politician who founded the Shiv Sena, a Hindu right-wing Marathi ethnocentric party active mainly in the western state of Maharashtra.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ, lit. "The country of Bengal"), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ), is a country in South Asia.

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Bhagalpur

Bhagalpur is a city of historical importance on the southern banks of the river Ganges in the Indian state of Bihar.

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Bharatiya Janata Party

The Bharatiya Janata Party (translation: Indian People's Party; BJP) is one of the two major political parties in India, along with the Indian National Congress.

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Bhiwandi

Bhiwandi is a city in the Thane district of Maharashtra state in Konkan division, located 20 km to the north-east of Mumbai and 15 km to the north-east of Thane city.

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Bombay riots

The Bombay Riots usually refers to the riots in Mumbai, in December 1992 and January 1993, in which around 900 people died.

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Boycott

A boycott is an act of voluntary and intentional abstention from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from rāj, literally, "rule" in Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.

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Caste system in India

The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic example of caste.

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Censorship in India

In general, censorship in India, which involves the suppression of speech or other public communication, raises issues of freedom of speech, which is protected by the Indian constitution.

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Central Board of Film Certification

The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) (often referred to as the Censor Board) is a statutory censorship and classification body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India.

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Communal violence

Communal violence is a form of violence that is perpetrated across ethnic or communal lines, the violent parties feel solidarity for their respective groups, and victims are chosen based upon group membership.

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Cow vigilante violence in India since 2014

In India, where cows are venerated by a large segment of the population, cow vigilante violence involving mob attacks in the name of "cow protection," but targeting mostly Muslims, has swelled since 2014.

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Cultural nationalism

Cultural nationalism is a form of nationalism in which the nation is defined by a shared culture.

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Dalit

Dalit, meaning "broken/scattered" in Sanskrit and Hindi, is a term mostly used for the castes in India that have been subjected to untouchability.

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Delhi

Delhi (Dilli), officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is a city and a union territory of India.

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Demography

Demography (from prefix demo- from Ancient Greek δῆμος dēmos meaning "the people", and -graphy from γράφω graphō, implies "writing, description or measurement") is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings.

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Demolition of the Babri Masjid

On 6 December 1992, a large crowd of Hindu Kar Sevaks (activists) demolished the 16th-century Babri Mosque in the city of Ayodhya, in Uttar Pradesh.

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Direct Action Day

Direct Action Day (16 August 1946), also known as the Great Calcutta Killings, was a day of widespread communal rioting between Muslims and Hindus in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in the Bengal province of British India.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Dubai

Dubai (دبي) is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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East Pakistan

East Pakistan was the eastern provincial wing of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, covering the territory of the modern country Bangladesh.

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Extremism

Extremism means, literally, "the quality or state of being extreme" or the "advocacy of extreme measures or views".

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Final Solution (2003 film)

Final Solution is a 2004 documentary film directed by Rakesh Sharma concerning the 2002 Gujarat pogrom in which both Hindu and Muslims are targeted in the state of Gujarat by political extremists.

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Frontline (magazine)

Frontline is a fortnightly English language magazine published by The Hindu Group of publications from Chennai, India.

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Genocide

Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part.

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Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh

Ghaziabad district is a largely suburban district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India of National Capital Region.

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Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh

Ghaziabad is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh founded by Wazir Ghazi-ud-din, a minister of Emperor Muhammad Shah in 1740.

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Globalization

Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Godhra train burning

The Godhra train burning was an incident that occurred on the morning of 27 February 2002, in which 59 people died in a fire inside the Sabarmati Express train near the Godhra railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat.

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state in Western India and Northwest India with an area of, a coastline of – most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula – and a population in excess of 60 million.

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Gulbarg Society massacre

The Gulbarg Society massacre took place on 28 February 2002, during the 2002 Gujarat riots, when a crowd started stone pelting the Gulbarg Society, a Muslim neighbourhood in Chamanpura, Ahmedabad.

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Gyan Prakash

Gyan Prakash (born 1952) is a historian of modern India and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University.

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Hashimpura massacre

The Hashimpura massacre is an alleged incident of mass murder which took place on or around 22 May 1987 near Meerut in Uttar Pradesh state, India, during the 1987 Meerut communal riots.

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Hindu

Hindu refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism.

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Hindu nationalism

Hindu nationalism has been collectively referred to as the expressions of social and political thought, based on the native spiritual and cultural traditions of the Indian subcontinent.

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Hindutva

Hindutva ("Hinduness"), a term popularised by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1923, is the predominant form of Hindu nationalism in India.

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Hiteswar Saikia

Hiteswar Saikia was the chief minister of Assam for two terms, first from February 28, 1983 to December 23, 1985 and then from June 30, 1991 to April 22, 1996.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Human trafficking

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.

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Hyderabad State

Hyderabad State was an Indian princely state located in the south-central region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad.

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Illegal immigration

Illegal immigration is the illegal entry of a person or a group of persons across a country's border, in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country, with the intention to remain in the country, as well as people who remain living in another country when they do not have the legal right to do so.

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Indian annexation of Hyderabad

Operation Polo is the code name of the Hyderabad "police action" in September 1948, by the newly independent India against the Hyderabad State.

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Indian Army

The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir

The insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir or the Kashmiri Insurgency (also known as Kashmir Intifada) is a conflict between various Kashmiri separatists and the Government of India.

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Investment

In general, to invest is to allocate money (or sometimes another resource, such as time) in the expectation of some benefit in the future – for example, investment in durable goods, in real estate by the service industry, in factories for manufacturing, in product development, and in research and development.

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Islam in India

Islam is the second largest religion in India, with 14.2% of the country's population or roughly 172 million people identifying as adherents of Islam (2011 census) as an ethnoreligious group.

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Islamic state

An Islamic state (دولة إسلامية, dawlah islāmiyyah) is a type of government primarily based on the application of shari'a (Islamic law), dispensation of justice, maintenance of law and order.

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Islamophobia

Islamophobia is the fear, hatred of, or prejudice against, the Islamic religion or Muslims generally, especially when seen as a geopolitical force or the source of terrorism.

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Jamaat-e-Islami Hind

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) is an Islamic organisation in India, founded as an offshoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami, which split into separate independent organisations in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Jammu & Kashmir following the Partition of India in 1947.

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Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir (ænd) is a state in northern India, often denoted by its acronym, J&K.

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Jammu Division

Jammu is one of the three administrative divisions within Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state in India.

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Kashmir conflict

The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after the partition of India in 1947.

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Mahallah

A mahallah, mahalla, mahallya, or mohalla, mëhallë (محلة; মহল্লা; मोहल्ला; محله; محله; Məhəllə; mëhallë or mëhalla), is a country subdivision or neighbourhood in parts of the Arab world, Balkans, Western and South Asia and nearby Nations.

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Maharashtra

Maharashtra (abbr. MH) is a state in the western region of India and is India's second-most populous state and third-largest state by area.

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Mallika Sarabhai

Mallika Sarabhai Shah (born 9 May 1954) is an activist and Indian classical dancer and actress from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

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Meerut

Meerut (IAST: Meraṭha), is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Moradabad

Moradabad is a city, commissionary, and a municipal corporation in Moradabad district of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Mosque

A mosque (from masjid) is a place of worship for Muslims.

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Movie theater

A movie theater/theatre (American English), cinema (British English) or cinema hall (Indian English) is a building that contains an auditorium for viewing films (also called movies) for entertainment.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Muradnagar

Muradnagar is a town and a municipal board in Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh.

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Muslim

A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.

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Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent

Muslim conquests on the Indian subcontinent mainly took place from the 12th to the 16th centuries, though earlier Muslim conquests made limited inroads into modern Afghanistan and Pakistan as early as the time of the Rajput kingdoms in the 8th century.

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Narendra Modi

Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014.

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Nellie massacre

The Nellie massacre took place in central Assam during a six-hour period in the morning of 18 February 1983.

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Noakhali riots

The Noakhali riots, were a series of semi-organized massacres, rapes, abductions and forced conversions of Hindus to Islam and looting and arson of Hindu properties perpetrated by the Muslim community in the districts of Noakhali in the Chittagong Division of Bengal (now in Bangladesh) in October–November 1946, a year before India's independence from British rule.

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Omar Khalidi

Omar Khalidi (1952 – 29 November 2010), born in Hyderabad, India, was a Muslim scholar, a staff member of MIT in the US, and an author.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Partition of India

The Partition of India was the division of British India in 1947 which accompanied the creation of two independent dominions, India and Pakistan.

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Parzania

Parzania (translation: Heaven and hell on earth) is a 2007 Indian drama film co-written and directed by Rahul Dholakia; David N. Donihue is the other co-writer.

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Persecution of Hindus

Hindus have experienced religious persecution in the form of forceful conversions, documented massacres, demolition and desecrations of temples, as well as the destruction of universities and schools.

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Persecution of Muslims

Persecution of Muslims is the religious persecution inflicted upon followers of Islamic faith.

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Pogrom

The term pogrom has multiple meanings, ascribed most often to the deliberate persecution of an ethnic or religious group either approved or condoned by the local authorities.

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Praveen Swami

Praveen Swami (born 1969) is an Indian journalist and author specialising on international strategic and security issues.

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Pro-Pakistan sentiment

Pro-Pakistan sentiment is fondness and love of aspects of Pakistani culture, Pakistani history, Pakistani cuisine, Pakistani traditions and the people of Pakistan.

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Rakesh Sharma (filmmaker)

Rakesh Sharma is an Indian documentary.

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Ram Puniyani

Ram Puniyani (born 25 August 1945) is a former professor of biomedical engineering and former senior medical officer affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

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Rape in India

Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India.

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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, abbreviated as RSS (Rāṣṭrīya Svayamsēvaka Saṅgha, IPA:, lit. "National Volunteer Organisation" or "National Patriotic Organisation"), is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist, paramilitary volunteer organisation that is widely regarded as the parent organisation of the ruling party of India, the Bharatiya Janata Party.

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Religious violence in India

Religious violence in India includes acts of violence by followers of one religious group against followers and institutions of another religious group, often in the form of rioting.

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, wherein a writer or speaker strives to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.

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Riot

A riot is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property or people.

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Saffron terror

Saffron terror is a neologism used to describe acts of violence motivated by Hindu nationalism.

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Sectarian violence

Sectarian violence and/or sectarian strife is a form of communal violence inspired by sectarianism, that is, between different sects of one particular mode of ideology or religion within a nation/community.

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Sessions Court

A Sessions Court is a lesser court of law which exists in several democratic countries, including Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, and the United States of America.

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Shiv Sena

Shiv Sena (IAST: Śiva Sēnā) (translation; Army of Shivaji), is an Indian far-right regional political party.

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Social anthropology

Social anthropology or anthroposociology is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and Commonwealth and much of Europe (France in particular), where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology.

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Socioeconomics

Socioeconomics (also known as social economics) is the social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes.

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Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah (16 January 1929 – 19 January 2014) was a social anthropologist and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology at Harvard University.

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State terrorism

State terrorism refers to acts of terrorism conducted by a state against foreign targets or against its own people.

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Sudipta Kaviraj

Sudipta Kaviraj (born 1945) is a scholar of South Asian Politics and Intellectual History, often associated with Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies.

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Sumit Ganguly

Sumit Ganguly is a Professor of Political Science at Indiana University and the currently holds that university's Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, focusing on comparative politics in South Asia.

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Supreme Court of India

The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal under the Constitution of India, the highest constitutional court, with the power of constitutional review.

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Teesta Setalvad

Teesta Setalvad (born 9 February 1962) is an Indian civil rights activist and journalist.

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Tehelka

Tehelka (Hindi: Sensation) is an Indian news magazine known for its investigative journalism and sting operations.

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Terrorism in India

Terrorism in India, according to the Home Ministry, poses a significant threat to the people of India.

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Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act

Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, commonly known as TADA, was an Indian anti-terrorism law which was in force between 1985 and 1995 (modified in 1987) under the background of the Punjab insurgency and was applied to whole of India.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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The Truth: Gujarat 2002

The Truth: Gujarat 2002 (also called Operation Kalank) was an investigative report on the 2002 Gujarat riots published by India's Tehelka news magazine in its 7 November 2007 issue.

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Upper Assam Division

Upper – Assam is an administrative division of the state of Assam comprising the undivided Lakhimpur and Sivasagar (previously, Sibsagar) districts, of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra valley.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh (IAST: Uttar Pradeś) is a state in northern India.

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Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary

Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary or Pradeshik Armed Constabulary, (UP-PAC) or just (PAC) is an armed police of Uttar Pradesh.

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Violence against Christians in India

Anti-Christian violence in India refers to religiously-motivated violence against Christians in India.

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Vishva Hindu Parishad

The Vishva Hindu Parishad (IAST: Viśva Hindū Pariṣada, pronunciation:, translation: World Hindu Council), abbreviated VHP, is an Indian right-wing Hindu nationalist organisation based on the ideology of Hindutva.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1950 East Pakistan riots

The Barisal Riots of 1950 or simply the 1950 riots (পঞ্চাশের গণহত্যা) refers to the rioting between Bengali Hindus and Bengali Muslims, the Pakistani police and the para-military accompanied by arson, loot, rape and abduction in the months of February and March 1950.

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1964 East Pakistan riots

The 1964 East Pakistan Riots refer to the massacre and ethnic cleansing of Bengali Hindus from East Pakistan in the wake of an alleged theft of what was believed to be the Prophet's hair from the Hazratbal shrine in Jammu and Kashmir in India.

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1969 Gujarat riots

The 1969 Gujarat riots refers to the communal violence between Hindus and Muslims during September–October 1969, in Gujarat, India.

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1970 Bhiwandi riots

The 1970 Bhiwandi riots were instances of anti-Muslim violence which occurred between 7 and 8 May in the Indian towns of Bhiwandi, Jalgaon and Mahad.

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1980 Moradabad riots

The 1980 Moradabad riots refers to violence that happened in the Indian city of Moradabad during August–November 1980.

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1984 Bhiwandi riot

The 1984 Bhiwandi riot occurred in May 1984 in and around Bhiwandi town in Indian state of Maharashtra.

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1985 Gujarat riots

The 1985 Gujarat riots began in February and lasted till October 1986, in the city of Ahmedabad.

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1987 Meerut communal riots

The 1987 Meerut riots were a series of violent communal disturbances between Hindus and Muslims along with PAC in the Northern UP town Meerut which occurred from March to June 1987.

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1989 Bhagalpur violence

The Bhagalpur riots of 1989 refers to the violence between the Hindus and the Muslims in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar, India.

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2002 Gujarat riots

The 2002 Gujarat riots, also known as the 2002 Gujarat violence and the Gujarat pogrom, was a three-day period of inter-communal violence in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

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2013 Muzaffarnagar riots

The clashes between the Hindu and Muslim communities in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India in August–September 2013, resulted in at least 62 deaths including 42 Muslims and 20 Hindus and injured 93 and left more than 50,000 displaced.

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1994 Anti-Urdu riots, 2006 Mangalore Riots, 2006 Mangalore riots, Anti-Muslim violence in India, Islamophobia in India, Persecution of Muslims in India.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_Muslims_in_India

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