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The history of modern India has many incidents of communal violence. During the 1947 partition there was religious violence between Muslim-Hindu, Muslim-Sikhs and Muslim-Jains on a gigantic scale. [110] Hundreds of religious riots have been recorded since then, in every decade of independent India.
The publication had printed a depiction of the Islamic prophet Muhammed and his history. Parsis Muslims N/A N/A N/A [2] 1857 Bharuch riot: May 1857 Broach and Mumbai Linked to the Broach riots Parsis Muslims 2 Parsis murdered N/A N/A [2] Parsi–Muslim riots 1874 13 February 1874 N/A N/A N/A [2] Salem riots of 1882: 1882 Salem, Tamil Nadu
[b] The Muslim zamindar-led secular Unionist Party, which had won 18 seats, of whom 10 were Muslim, formed a coalition government with the Indian National Congress, which was the second biggest winner after the ML, winning 51 seats, and the Shiromani Akali Dal, which had won 20 seats, all from Sikh constituencies.
Communal riots occurred in Bihar, India from 24 October to 11 November 1946, in which Hindu mobs targeted Muslim families. The riots were triggered by the Great Calcutta Killings, as well as the Noakhali riots earlier that year. Mahatma Gandhi declared that he would fast unto death if the riots did not stop. The riots were part of a sequence of ...
An India-Bangladesh cricket match was disrupted when a mob of an estimated 5,000 men tried to storm the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the national capital of Dhaka. [46] The Dhaka office of Air India was stormed and destroyed. [43] 10 people were reportedly killed, 11 Hindu temples and several homes destroyed.
The 1970 Bhiwandi riots were religious riots which occurred between 7 and 8 May in the Indian towns of Bhiwandi, Jalgaon and Mahad, between Hindus and Muslims. [1] The riots caused the deaths of over 250 people; [2] the Justice Madon commission, which investigated the riots, stated that 142 Muslims and 20 Hindus had been killed in Bhiwandi alone, and 50 Muslims and 17 Hindus in the surrounding ...
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 elections was ...
Bhagalpur has a history of communal violence, and in 1989, the Hindu-Muslims tensions had escalated during the Muharram and Bisheri Puja festivities in August. [5]In 1989, as part of the Ram Janmabhoomi campaign, which aimed to construct a Hindu temple at Ayodhya in place of the Babri mosque, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) had organized a Ramshila procession in Bhagalpur.