Pogrom in Gujarat (eBook)

Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India

Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (Autor)

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2012
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4259-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi is assistant professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. He is the editor of Violence: Ethnographic Encounters.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 20 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: 2002 Gujarat riots • 2002 pogrom • Abjection • accumulated suggestion • Adivasi • Ahimsa • Ahmedabad • Ahmedabadis • Ambivalence • animal sacrifice • animal slaughter • anti-Gujarati plots • anti-Hindu • anti-Muslim pogrom • Asceticism • Ashram Road • assassination • Bajrang Dal • bandh • Bharatiya Janata Party • Brahmin • butcher • Cannibalism • caste • castration • celibacy • Central Gujarat • Chauhan • City map • City of • civic order • Collective Violence • communal aggregation • Communalism • communal violence • Cosmopolitan freedom • cowardice • cultural processes • cultural unity • Dalit • dietary habits • Disgust • Disinvestment • economic discipline • Ehsan Jafri • ethnic cultivation • Exclusion • First Information Report • Gandhi • Godhra • Godhra incident • Gujarat • Gujarati Muslims • Gujarati people • Gujarat University • Gulbarg Society • Haren Pandya • Heterogeneity • Hindu • Hinduism • Hindu nationalism • Hindu pilgrim • Hindutva • HinduЍuslim divide • humiliation • hypocrisy • Identification • Ideology • Indian national integration • insinuation • iSi • Islam • Jafri • Jain • Jainism • Juhapura • krodh • Kurta • low-intensity tension • Mahatma Gandhi • meat • meat eater • Meat eating • middle class • modern decadence • Modesty • Mosque • mother goddess • Mr. • Muslim • Muslim communities • Muslims • Mutilation • Narendra Modi • Naroda • Naroda Patiya • Naroda Patiya massacre • narrative • news coverage • newspaper • Nonviolence • Other Backward Class • Oxford University Press • Pakistani intelligence services • patel • Patidar • phantasmagoria • pity • Pogrom • political movement • Politician • pollution • Potency • Power • pratikriya • Prejudice • Psychological processes • Rajput • Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh • Relief • Religion • Renunciation • resentment • residence • Residential Area • Sabarmati Express • Sacrifice • Sadhu • Sandesh • Sangh Parivar • Sanskrit • Separation • sexual fantasies • Sikh • Slum • State Police • stereotypes • Suffering • Suggestion • Surname • terrorism • The Other Hand • The Times of India • tofan • untouchability • urban experience • Urban Spaces • Vagri • Vaishnava traditions • Vaishnavism • Vegetable • Vegetarianism • Violence • Vishva Hindu Parishad • vulnerability • wage earners • Women • Women in Islam • word imagery
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4259-X / 140084259X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4259-9 / 9781400842599