Pogrom in Gujarat

Ghassem-Fachandi, Parvis:
Pogrom in Gujarat : Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India / Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012. - ca. 352 S. : Ill.
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Beschreibung
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. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of Figures. vii
Introduction. 1
1. "Why do you leave? Fight for us!". 31
2. Word and Image. 59
3. The Gujarat Pogrom. 93
4. The Lack of Muslim Vulnerability. 123
5. Vibrant Vegetarian Gujarat. 153
6. Ahimsa, Gandhi, and the Angry Hindu. 185
7. Split City Body. 213
8. Heterogeneity and the Nation. 257
Postscript. 273
Notes. 283
List of Abbreviations. 303
Glossary. 305
References. 309
Index. 323

Autor
PARVIS GHASSEM-FACHANDI is assistant professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. He is the editor of Violence: Ethnographic Encounters. Profile page.

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