TY - BOOK ID - 77888020 TI - Pogrom in Gujarat PY - 2012 SN - 1280494611 9786613589842 140084259X 9781400842599 9780691151762 0691151768 9780691151779 0691151776 PB - Princeton, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Muslims KW - Ethnic conflict KW - Pogroms KW - Gujarat Riots, India, 2002. KW - Mohammedans KW - Moors (People) KW - Moslems KW - Muhammadans KW - Musalmans KW - Mussalmans KW - Mussulmans KW - Mussulmen KW - Religious adherents KW - Islam KW - Conflict, Ethnic KW - Ethnic violence KW - Inter-ethnic conflict KW - Interethnic conflict KW - Ethnic relations KW - Social conflict KW - Genocide KW - Jews KW - Massacres KW - Riots KW - Godhra Train Fire, Godhra, India, 2002 KW - Violence against KW - Persecutions KW - 2002 pogrom. KW - Ahmedabad. KW - Ahmedabadis. KW - Bharatiya Janata Party. KW - Dalit. KW - Gandhi. KW - Godhra incident. KW - Gujarat. KW - Gulbarg Society. KW - Hindu nationalism. KW - Hindu pilgrim. KW - HinduЍuslim divide. KW - ISI. KW - Indian national integration. KW - Jain. KW - Jainism. KW - Muslim communities. KW - Muslim. KW - Muslims. KW - Naroda Patiya. KW - Pakistani intelligence services. KW - Rajput. KW - Sandesh. KW - The Times of India. KW - Vaishnava traditions. KW - accumulated suggestion. KW - ahimsa. KW - anti-Gujarati plots. KW - anti-Hindu. KW - anti-Muslim pogrom. KW - bandh. KW - butcher. KW - civic order. KW - collective violence. KW - communal aggregation. KW - cosmopolitan freedom. KW - cultural processes. KW - cultural unity. KW - dietary habits. KW - economic discipline. KW - ethnic cultivation. KW - heterogeneity. KW - identification. KW - insinuation. KW - krodh. KW - low-intensity tension. KW - meat eater. KW - meat eating. KW - middle class. KW - modern decadence. KW - news coverage. KW - nonviolence. KW - phantasmagoria. KW - pogrom. KW - political movement. KW - potency. KW - power. KW - pratikriya. KW - psychological processes. KW - relief. KW - sacrifice. KW - separation. KW - sexual fantasies. KW - state police. KW - stereotypes. KW - terrorism. KW - tofan. KW - urban experience. KW - urban spaces. KW - vegetarianism. KW - violence. KW - wage earners. KW - women. KW - word imagery. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888020 AB - In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death. The ruling nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party blamed Gujarat's entire Muslim minority for the tragedy and incited fellow Hindus to exact revenge. The resulting violence left more than one thousand people dead--most of them Muslims--and tens of thousands more displaced from their homes. Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi witnessed the bloodshed up close. In Pogrom in Gujarat, he provides a riveting ethnographic account of collective violence in which the doctrine of ahimsa--or nonviolence--and the closely associated practices of vegetarianism became implicated by legitimating what they formally disavow. Ghassem-Fachandi looks at how newspapers, movies, and other media helped to fuel the pogrom. He shows how the vegetarian sensibilities of Hindus and the language of sacrifice were manipulated to provoke disgust against Muslims and mobilize the aspiring middle classes across caste and class differences in the name of Hindu nationalism. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of Gujarat's culture and politics and the close ties he shared with some of the pogrom's sympathizers, Ghassem-Fachandi offers a strikingly original interpretation of the different ways in which Hindu proponents of ahimsa became complicit in the very violence they claimed to renounce. ER -