communal violence
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A Quick Question- when did Hindus revenge themselves?
The author asks when before 1947 Hindus or Sikhs took revenge on Muslims in mass violence comparable to Direct Action Day, to test whether the Muslim League’s fear of Hindu-majority…
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How serious is the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India ?
Citing a scholar who finds continuity in BJP policy on minorities, the author argues Hindu-Muslim conflict is rather benign by the twentieth century’s standards, compared with Russia, China and Mexico,…
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The Crime of being a Muslim
X.T.M cites a report that a Sikh police officer saved a Muslim man from a mob for standing near a temple with a Hindu girl, with student Umar Khalid’s tribute…
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Religion trumps race in Sri Lanka
Citing a monk-led mob attacking Rohingya refugees in Sri Lanka, the author argues South Asians grasp the power of religion over race better than most, pointing to South Asian Muslims’…
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Partition stories; a pair of beds in Jehlum
Prompted by a tweet about a Partition museum, the author records an unpublished story from a friend’s family about two heavy beds in a Jhelum house, and about friendly Hindu,…
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Burnt Offering: The Martyrdom of Shama and Shahzad Masih
An account of how a Christian brick-kiln couple were killed by a mob in a Punjab village after being accused of burning Qur’anic pages, drawing on a World Watch Monitor…
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Secularism (no exceptions please)
Using the killing of three Sikhs in Saharanpur, the poster challenges Mukul Kesavan’s distinction that Congress kills from opportunity and the BJP from ideology, asking whether victims feel better about…
