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From Gandhi to Violence: Ahmedabad's 1985 Riots in Historical Perspective

1989; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 23; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0026749x00010209

1469-8099

Howard Spodek,

Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

In 1985 riots racked the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, continuing for a period of almost half a year, form February through July, leaving some 275 people dead, thousands injured, tens of thousands homeless, and a loss of property and trade estimated at Rs 2,200 crores (US$1.75 thousand million) ( India Today , 13 August 1985, pp. 60 and 119), in ‘the most alarmingly sustained bout of rioting (as opposed to the sort of terrorism Punjab suffered…) since India's independence’ (Manor 1986: 102).