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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.
The 1961 Jabalpur Riots were the first major-scale riots between Hindus and Muslims in post-Partition India, which erupted in the city of Jabalpur in the state of Madhya Pradesh. This riot was linked to the emergence of a small class of successful Muslim entrepreneurs who created a new economic rivalry between Hindu and Muslim communities.
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 riots caused a major discontent among Sikh separatists living overseas, particularly in Canada. As a result of the riots, the Babbar Khalsa, a Sikh separatist group, planted a bomb on board Air India flight 182, a Boeing 747-200, which was flying from Montréal to Delhi, with a stopover at London on 23 June 1985.
[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
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 ...
2011 – Riots in Paramakudi, Tamil Nadu, India, 7 killed. [314] 2011 – Riots in Ujjain, India, 2 killed and 16 injured in a religious riot. [315] 2011 – Riots in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India, at least 9 killed, over a dozen injured. [316] 2011 – Riots in Katunitsa, Bulgaria, 2 dead, at least 6 injured in ethnic clashes. [317] [318]
The 1984 Bhiwandi riot was a Hindu-Muslim riot that occurred in May 1984 in and around Bhiwandi town in Indian state of Maharashtra. It left 146 people dead and over 600 injured. [1] [2] On 17 May 1984, riots broke out in industrial belt from Bombay, Thane, and Bhiwandi. In all, 278 were killed and 1,118 were wounded. [3] [4] [5]