1984 Maharashtra riots

Violence against Muslims in India September 2020 July 2017 1984 anti-Sikh riots 1984 Maharashtra riots Maharashtra, India May 1984 Muslims 278 1,118 Shiv Sena In May 1984, a month long series of religious violence against Muslims occurred in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The violence primarily occurred around Bhiwandi town. It left 146 people dead and over 600 injured.https://books.google.com/books?id=RGyO0E86X1oC&pg=PA87 Indian Democracy Derailed Politics and Politicians Srikanta Ghosh 22 September 1997 APH Publishing 9788170248668Bhiwandi riots: Four held from Malegaon http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bhiwandi-riots-four-held-from-malegaon/8858/ The Indian Express 20 July 2006 On 17 May 1984, riots broke out in industrial belt from Bombay, Thane, and Bhiwandi. Overall, 278 were killed and 1,118 were left wounded.Hansen 2001 77 bhi84Communal Riots in Post-independence India Asgharali Engineer Asgharali Engineer Universities Press 1991 8173701024 330 https://books.google.com/books?id=yB5NM0o3I9QC&pg=PA330https://books.google.com/books?id=-y3iNt0djbQC Hansen Thomas Blom Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay Princeton University Press 978-0-691-08840-2 2001 bhi84 The increasingly harsh anti-Muslim rhetoric and radical tactics of the Shiv Sena, a Hindutva political party, directly caused the riots. In April 1984, at Chowpatty Beach in Bombay, Bal Thackeray delivered an anti-Muslim speech in which he repeatedly employed the offensive term landya and called Muslims "a cancer."Hansen Thomas Blom https://books.google.com/books?id=Bf5ZDwAAQBAJ&dq=1984+Bhiwandi+anti+Muslim&pg=PA76 Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay 2018-06-05 Princeton University Press 978-0-691-18862-1 en References External links A HORROR STORY IN INDIA: SURVIVORS TELL OF ATTACK Category:1980s in Maharashtra Riots, 1984 Category:Religious riots in India Category:Riots and civil disorder in Maharashtra Category:Mass murders in Maharashtra Category:May 1984 in India Category:1984 riots Category:1984 murders in India Category:Riots and civil disorder in Mumbai Category:Thane Category:1984 mass murders Category:20th-century mass murders in India