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The history of modern India has many incidents of communal violence. During the 1947 partition there was religious violence between Muslim-Hindu, Muslim-Sikhs and Muslim-Jains on a gigantic scale. [110] Hundreds of religious riots have been recorded since then, in every decade of independent India.
Anti-Muslim violence creates a security risk for Hindus residing outside of India. Since the 1950s, there have been retaliatory attacks on Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh in response to anti-Muslim violence in India. After the 1992 violence in Bombay, Hindu temples were attacked in Britain, Dubai and Thailand. [47]
The violence included the looting of Hindu properties and businesses, the burning of Hindu homes, rape of Hindu women and desecration and destruction of Hindu temples. [ 150 ] On 28 February 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal sentenced Delwar Hossain Sayeedi , the Vice President of the Jamaat-e-Islami to death for the war crimes committed ...
The 48-hour cycle of violence which was put out on Wednesday has brought to the fore Hindu-Mu. Hindu-Muslim clashes just outside the Indian capital this week have worsened religious fault lines in ...
There is a long history of interreligious tension between Muslims and Hindus in India. The country was almost entirely Hindu until the 14th century, when Muslim armies invaded. Approximately 3,000 mosques in India were built on top of Hindu temples, or on sites otherwise sacred to Hindus. Some Hindu nationalists want to demolish these mosques ...
Hyderabad has a long history of Hindu-Muslim violence, with the previous major riot taking place in 1984. The roots of the 1990 riots lay in the Ayodhya dispute, which is centered on Uttar Pradesh, a different state. Hindu activists have long alleged that the Babri mosque in Ayodhya was constructed after Muslims demolished a temple at the site ...
Another account says that the Hindu rebels were trying to extort from a Muslim village who resisted and killed one of the rebel. [2] The violence started on 3 May 1993 and continued well into 5 May. Bus containing Muslims passengers were set on fire and clashes took places between Pangal and Meitei. [3] An estimated 90 to 130 people were killed ...
Bhagalpur has a history of communal violence, and in 1989, the Hindu-Muslims tensions had escalated during the Muharram and Bisheri Puja festivities in August. [5]In 1989, as part of the Ram Janmabhoomi campaign, which aimed to construct a Hindu temple at Ayodhya in place of the Babri mosque, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) had organized a Ramshila procession in Bhagalpur.