[Book Review] Hate and The State: Hindu-Muslim Riot Politics in India (Ananya Vajpeyi)

Riot Politics: Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State
by Ward Berenschot

Columbia University Press, 320 pp., $40

THE PHRASE “Gujarat 2002” has, for the past decade, struck fear and shame in the hearts of many Indians. It marks a period of about three months, from late February 2002, when the Western state of Gujarat, and especially its first city, Ahmedabad, erupted into ugly mass violence targeted at local Muslim communities. About 2,500 people died (though official figures claim half that number), and tens of thousands were displaced, many of them permanently.

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