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10 people of the Dalit caste A team of State Reserve Police Force members fired upon a crowd protesting the recent desecration of a statue of Dalit activist B. R. Ambedkar. Laxmanpur Bathe massacre: 1 December 1997 Arwal district, Bihar: 58 people of the Dalit caste
From 2005 to 2009, an average of 130 people died every year from communal riots, and 2,200 were injured. [10] In pre-partitioned India, over the 1920–1940 period, numerous communal violence incidents were recorded, an average of 381 people died per year during religious violence, and thousands were injured. [171]
Pages in category "Lists of Indian people by community" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The number of people executed in India since independence in 1947 is a matter of dispute; official government statistics claim that only 57 people had been executed since independence. However, available information from other sources indicates that the official government figures are false, and the actual number of executions in India may run ...
Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rival trade union member [4] Krishna Desai: 1970 Maharashtra: Communist Party of India: Shiv Sena party members [5] Azhikodan Raghavan: 1972 Kerala: Convener of the Left Front: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Unknown. Most probably communist rebels [6] [7] Manzurul Hasan Khan 1972 Chitarpur, Jharkhand: MLA ...
In the aftermath of the pogroms, the government reported that 20,000 had fled the city; the People's Union for Civil Liberties reported "at least" 1,000 displaced persons. [25] The most-affected regions were the Sikh neighborhoods of Delhi. Human rights organizations and newspapers across India believed that the massacre was organized.
After a significant shift in landownership in the post colonial era from Brahmin to non-Brahmin castes (like Reddys, Kammas and Kapus), Kammas, who already constituted an affluent and politically powerful group before the twentieth century and were classified as "Shudras" in the traditional Varna system, gained increased social dominance ...
The Burari deaths were a ritual mass suicide [1] of eleven family members of the Chundawat family [2] from Burari, Delhi, India, in 2018. Ten people—ranging in age from 15 to 57 years old—were found hanged, while the oldest family member, the 80-year-old grandmother, was strangled. The bodies were found on 1 July 2018, in the early morning ...