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These riots shook Jawaharlal Nehru as he never expected communal riots of such intensity in independent India. Hindu nationalist organizations including ABVP, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh played a major role in this riot. Officially 55 were killed, though according to unofficial accounts, 200 were killed.
[citation needed] Thus, the riots opened the way to a partition of Bengal between a Hindu-dominated Western Bengal including Calcutta and a Muslim-dominated Eastern Bengal (now Bangladesh). [8] The All-India Muslim League and the Indian National Congress were the two largest political parties in the Constituent Assembly of India in the
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8,000 - 17,000 Sikhs all over India Series of riots after Assassination of Indira Gandhi. Hondh-Chillar massacre (part of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots) 2 November 1984 Hondh-Chillar, Haryana: 32 Sikhs Rioting by Indian National Congress Party members after Assassination of Indira Gandhi. Desri Ground massacre (part of the terrorist incidents in Punjab)
The Bombay riots can be considered a result of larger communal tensions throughout India. The British colonial policy of Divide and Rule allegedly included administrative and political activities such as communalized census taking, and the Morley Minto reforms, that relied on communal segregation, and in particular Hindu-Muslim divisions. [9]
By Shivam Patel. NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Suhel Mansuri, who carries scars from Hindu-Muslim riots that killed dozens in his district of India's capital in 2020, says his vote on Saturday in national ...
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1948 Guwahati riots; 1986 Killings of Kekuojalie Sachü and Vikhozo Yhoshü; 2006 Dalit protests in Maharashtra; 2006 Indian anti-reservation protests; 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement; 2011 land acquisition protests in Uttar Pradesh; 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting; 2016 Indian general strike; 2017 Nagaland protests