1994 anti-Urdu riots

November 2022 November 2022 Anti-Urdu riots are series of clashes that erupted in and around Bangalore from 7 October 1994. Clashes took place at Jagajeevanram Nagar neighborhood in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It also spread to many areas claiming 23 lives, injuries to more than 150 and losses of property worth more than 10 million US dollar.urdu news broadcast triggers 3day riot in which 23 die in bangalore https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_name=/1994/10/12/urdu-news-broadcast-triggers-3day-riot-in-which-23-die-in-bangalore&post_id=46107 2023-12-17 ucanews.com enDahlburg John-Thor 1994-10-09 War of Words Turns Fatal in India : Violence: Dispute over Urdu language being used on a 10-minute TV broadcast leads to riots, 17 deaths. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-09-mn-48390-story.html 2024-12-04 Los Angeles Times en-USSwamy Rohini 2020-08-13 Bengaluru has seen 8 major riots since 1986 — including two over Prophet Muhammad https://theprint.in/india/bengaluru-has-seen-8-major-riots-since-1986-including-two-over-prophet-muhammad/481085/ 2024-12-04 ThePrint en-US Background The riots were believed to be a reaction against a ten-minute telecast of Urdu news on India's national television channel, Doordarshan at prime-time. Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal (Secular) claimed was a political stunt by chief minister Veerappa Moily to gain political support among Muslims, which Moily denied and countered to by claiming they had attempted to communalize the broadcast.URDU NEWS BROADCAST TRIGGERS 3-DAY RIOT IN WHICH 23 DIE IN BANGALORE https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_name=/1994/10/12/urdu-news-broadcast-triggers-3day-riot-in-which-23-die-in-bangalore&post_id=46107# UCA News 11 October 1994War of Words Turns Fatal in India : Violence: Dispute over Urdu language being used on a 10-minute TV broadcast leads to riots, 17 deaths. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-09-mn-48390-story.html Los Angeles Times 9 October 1994Urdu news bulletin on Bangalore Doordarshan sparks off riots https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19941031-urdu-news-bulletin-on-bangalore-doordarshan-sparks-off-riots-809868-1994-10-30 India Today Saritha Rai 31 October 1994 20 November 2022Engineer Asghar Ali 1994 Bangalore Violence: Linguistic or Communal? https://www.jstor.org/stable/4401963 Economic and Political Weekly 29 44 2854–2858 4401963 0012-9976 The riots stopped following decision to discontinue the news bulletin.Urdu news bulletin on Bangalore Doordarshan sparks off riots https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19941031-urdu-news-bulletin-on-bangalore-doordarshan-sparks-off-riots-809868-1994-10-30 2023-12-17 India Today en See also 1991 Anti-Tamil violence of Karnataka 2020 Bangalore riots References Notes The promise of the metropolis: Bangalore's twentieth century Janaki Nair Oxford University Press 259 2005 0195667255 Karnataka Category:1994 murders in India Category:1994 riots Category:1990s in Bengaluru Category:Language conflict in India Category:Doordarshan Category:Riots and civil disorder in Bengaluru Category:Urdu Category:Regionalism in India Category:Attacks on commercial buildings in India Category:October 1994 in India Category:October 1994 crimes Category:Attacks on buildings and structures in 1994 Category:1994 mass murders Category:20th-century mass murders in India