1925 Indian riots

The 1925 Indian riots were sixteen communal riots which occurred throughout British India. Reported as being among the worst were in March in Delhi, during September in Aligarh, at Arvi in the Wardha district and in Solapur.Simon 1930 100 Aligarh The Aligarh riot occurred on 22 September 1925 in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh in British India (now the state of Uttar Pradesh) . Of the 16 communal riots that occurred that year, it was counted as one of the most severe. The London Times wrote two stories on the riots.Brass 2005 70 The riot was confined to Aligarh,Bapu 2012 173 which is in the top five of most riot prone cities in India.Gayer 2012 136 According to a report from the Singapore Free Press, on 24 September 1925, it had been said the rioting was caused by Muslims throwing stones at Hindus during the festival of Ramlila, the Hindus retaliated and in the ensuing violence sixty Muslim men and women were injured and twelve Hindus were hospitalized.Free Press 1925 Sheikh Abdullah, at a Muslim League conference at Aligarh, likened the year-long violence to the Crusades and said that the most serious danger that Muslims had ever had to deal with was the ongoing Hindu resurgence.Cell 2002 135 The official number of those killed in the riot was six, four Muslims and two Hindus.Gayer 2012 136Brass 2005 71 References 2 Bibliography 2 Simon Viscount John Allsebrook Memoranda submitted by the government of India and the India office 1930 Government of India Central Publication Branch University of Wisconsin 100 Brass Paul R. The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India 2005 University of Washington Press 978-0-295-98506-0 70 Bapu Prabhu Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930: Constructing Nation and History 2012 Routledge 978-0-415-67165-1 173 Free Press Singapore Riots at Aligarh Singapore Free Press 26 September 1925 Gayer Laurent Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation 2012 C Hurst & Co 978-1-84904-176-8 136 Christophe Jaffrelot Cell John W. Hailey: A Study in British Imperialism, 1872-1969 2002 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-52117-8 135 Horowitz Donald L. The Deadly Ethnic Riot 2001 University of California Press 978-0-520-22447-6 244 registration https://archive.org/details/deadlyethnicriot00horo/page/244 Riots Category:Sectarianism Category:1925 conflicts Category:September 1925 in Asia