communal violence
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Hindu-Muslim violence is changing
X.T.M shares Christophe Jaffrelot’s summary of a journal special issue arguing that anti-Muslim violence in India has shifted from riots used to win votes to lynchings and bulldozers under a…
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Open Thread; The Archive, The Lynching, and Humanity First
Open thread noting the backtagging of the archive, then taking up a commenter’s linked report of the lynching of Suleman Khan Pathan, 20, and a debate over asymmetric condemnation of…
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🧵 Open Thread: Hate Speech, Travel Notes, and Diplomatic Surprises
Open thread. X.T.M says a comment glorifying Partition violence crossed the line and that the commenter must retract and apologise before posting again, and notes his travels and Pakistan’s diplomacy…
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Some musings on the Bengal riots of 1949-50
Drawing on TCA Raghavan’s The People Next Door, the author notes that Bengal’s partition violence peaked in early 1950, especially in East Pakistan, prompting Nehru’s hawkish stance, and suggests Gandhi’s…
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Partition story, part 1
Omar Ali posts an English translation of his father Nadir Ali’s Punjabi memories of Partition, recalled from age eleven in Gujrat: the drought of 1947, riots in Lahore, Sikh loss…
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The Delhi riots
Open thread for comments on the February 2020 Delhi riots, with the poster saying he does not know what is happening there.
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Live Blogging: Documenting post-war ethno-religious violence in Sri Lanka
Live notes on Dr Farzana Haniffa’s lecture on post-war ethno-religious violence in Sri Lanka, covering the 1958 and 1983 anti-Tamil violence, Muslim concentration in the East, anti-Halal campaigns and the…
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Live Blogging – the Economics of Religion in India
Live notes on Dr Sri Iyer’s talk about her book on the economics of religion in India, defining religion, surveying affiliation and median ages across faiths, and citing findings that…
