Download or read book THE RAMPAGING SAFFRON written by ARUN MURUGESAN and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is at the crossroads. Never before in its 70 years of independence, has the idea of peaceful coexistence been under a severe threat. The last decade or so has seen the spectacular or rather, an alarming rise of the Indian right, spearheaded by the RSS. The group, apart from the shakeup it has created to the volatile political landscape, has also mesmerised a large number of young Indians towards a false narrative of nationalism based on majoritarianism. Unless the Indians, young and old, many of whom are abetting a majoritarian mindset, exhibit an intellectual honesty, the idea of a shining India shall soon give way to a shrieking India.
Download or read book Communalism and Sexual Violence in India written by Megha Kumar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual violence has been a regular feature of communal conflict in India since independence in 1947. The Partition riots, which saw the brutal victimization of thousands of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh women, have so far dominated academic discussions of communal violence. This book examines the specific conditions motivating sexual crimes against women based on three of the deadliest riots that occurred in Ahmedabad city, Gujarat, in 1969, 1985 and 2002. Using an in-depth, grassroots-level analysis, Megha Kumar moves away from the predominant academic view that sees Hindu nationalist ideology as responsible for encouraging attacks on women. Instead, gendered communal violence is shown to be governed by the interaction of an elite ideology and the unique economic, social and political dynamics at work in each instance of conflict. Using government reports, Hindu nationalist publications and civil society commentaries, as well as interviews with activists, politicians and riot survivors, the book offers new insights into the factors and ideologies involved in communal violence, as well as the conditions that work to prevent sexual violence in certain riot contexts.The Politics of Sexual Violence in India will be valuable for academic researchers, Human Rights organizations, NGOs working with survivors of sexual violence and for those involved with community development and urban grassroots activism.
Download or read book Gujarat the Making of a Tragedy written by Siddharth Varadarajan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2002 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to be a permanent public archive of the communal violence in Gujarat in early 2002. Drawing upon eyewitness reports from the English, Hindi and regional media, citizens and official articles by leading public figures and intellectuals, it provides an account of how and why the state was allowed to burn.
Download or read book Pogrom in Gujarat written by Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Saffron Storm written by Saba Naqvi and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) enjoys a predominant position in Indian politics today. In its journey from coalition to single-party rule, the BJP has changed as much as India appears to have. Veteran journalist Saba Naqvi tells the story of the party’s journey under two very different prime ministers drawn from the same ideological family. In 1998, the author attended the very modest swearing-in ceremony of Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the courtyard of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. In 2014, she was at a mega event at the same venue when Narendra Modi was sworn in. The Saffron Storm is both a first-person account of racy events as they unfolded in the nation’s history and a work that raises larger analytical points about the BJP’s growth. It examines the role of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh cadre and its equations with elected leaders, the calibration of ideology, the issue of political finance and the social expansion of the party, as also the cults of personality that would emerge around, first, Vajpayee and then, more forcefully, around Modi. The book provides a riveting account of the party’s journey from ‘untouchability’ (when allies were unwilling to join) to its presumed ‘invincibility’ today. This updated edition also describes the enforcement agencies’ action against the party’s opponents, the increasingly centralized command structure of the BJP and the implications of the delimitation exercise due in 2026. The Saffron Storm is a fascinating and readable dive into the contemporary history of the BJP.
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Download or read book BACKLASH TO TODAY written by Dr. Sudhir Andrews and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning from 1946 during British colonization to 2023's era of 'economic colonization,' 'Backlash to Today' is a unique historical anthology interwoven with the author's life. It intricately portrays nine decades, capturing the essence of each era through lifestyles, fashion, dance, and music while chronicling significant global and Indian occurrences—disasters, terrorism, assassinations, crimes, deaths, wars, and civil disturbances. Beyond a mere reflection, the book offers a broader philosophical perspective. The author foresees humanity's imminent demise due to irreparable climate change, power-hungry leaders, terrorism causing global instability with economic collapse, the looming specter of nuclear annihilation, and the dread of an untreatable pandemic. It aspires to impart a glimpse of these nine decades to future inheritors of the Earth, whether human or alien. This ambitious work aims to serve as a time capsule akin to the profound significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls, providing a visceral understanding of the times lived and the looming challenges facing humanity.
Download or read book Scarred written by Dionne Bunsha and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did it really start with the burning of a train? Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat asserts the existence of a much larger politics of violence, and tells the story of a disaster in Hindutva’s laboratory which etched deep faults in Gujarat’s social landscape. While capturing the predicament of the Sabarmati Express survivors, Scarred is an intense, moving portrait of refugees whose lives have been changed forever by the violence that followed. It tells the story of people fighting for justice amidst fear and turmoil, unable to return home. It is also an insightful look into the minds of the perpetrators of this violence, and the world they seek to construct—a world where the ghettoization and socio-economic boycott of Muslims have become the norm. What exactly happened in Gujarat in February 2002? Why did the country’s political leaders fiddle while Gandhi’s Gujarat burned? In this honest and thought-provoking book, Dionne Bunsha tries to answer these and many of the questions that we are still left with.
Download or read book Bane on the Rampage written by Bill Matheny and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young Dark Knight faces the mighty Bane, a foe who is twice his size and has the wiles of ten men.
Download or read book The Gujarat Pogrom written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dragon New Dad s Daily Life written by Chu WenJiangHu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 1861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was just a top student in the veterinary medicine department from the Agricultural University. Before he could even realize his dream, on a stormy night, he was' summoned 'to another world by a certain Dragon King. From then on, the cute little dragon and the sick magical beasts all flocked to him ...
Download or read book The Bag of Saffron written by Betsey Riddle Freifrau von Hutten zum Stolzenberg and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Amatory Elegies of Johannes Secundus written by Paul Murgatroyd and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the first translation into English of all the major love poetry of the Renaissance neo-Latin poet Johannes Secundus and the first detailed critical appreciation of the first two books of his Elegies and the Elegiae Sollemnes. The book consists of an introduction (on the poet's life and works, characters in and dating of the amatory elegies, literary background etc.), facing Latin text and English translation of the Elegies, brief explanatory notes and full essays of appreciation, an appendix with a translation into English of the Basia and Epithalamium, and an index. This work contains extensive amounts of valuable information about Secundus' models, wit, style, sound, diction, placement, structure, manipulation of characters and themes, generic innovation etc. and facilitates a complete reappraisal of this major Renaissance love poet.
Download or read book Laird of Flint written by Glynnis Campbell and published by Glynnis Campbell. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AI-FREE! 100% certified organic author-created content. No artificial intelligence was used in the writing of this book. From USA Today bestselling author Glynnis Campbell…Passionate in love and war, Hew du Lac of Rivenloch loses his heart at the drop of a gauntlet. But when that heart is mortally wounded by his latest ladylove, he swears off women and retreats to a monastery. There he expects no temptation...until he crosses paths with the local laird’s daughter. Everyone loves Lady Carenza of Dunlop, who is as sweet as she is beautiful. Despite his vow, Hew finds her impossible to resist, and she charms him as easily as the animals she tames. But behind her delightful nature, she is discontent. As a laird’s daughter, her future is not her own. Only in Hew’s embrace does she finally glimpse a chance for true happiness. But as romance kindles, a secret betrothal threatens to turn them into star-crossed lovers. When they find their hearts in danger, will they choose clan loyalty or a once-in-a-lifetime love? LAIRD OF FLINT Book 2 of The Warrior Lairds of Rivenloch One laird of Steel... One laird of Flint... One laird of Smoke... Born into the powerful Rivenloch clan, Gellir, Hew, and Adam, three bold and brave Scottish warriors, are ready to conquer the world alone, until intrepid Highland heroines destroy their best-laid plans, melting their armored hearts with the power of love. In This Series The Warrior Lairds of Rivenloch 1160 – LAIRD OF STEEL 1160 – LAIRD OF FLINT 1160 – LAIRD OF SMOKE Key Themes: Scottish historical romance, adventure stories, forbidden love, daughter of a laird, Highland bride, Viking warrior, knight in shining armor, brothers, pet cow, animal lover, medieval castle, cousins, sword fighting, Highlander romance, stories with humor More Historical Romances by Glynnis Campbell The Warrior Maids of Rivenloch THE SHIPWRECK (a novella) A YULETIDE KISS (a short story) LADY DANGER CAPTIVE HEART KNIGHT'S PRIZE The Warrior Daughters of Rivenloch THE STORMING (a novella) A RIVENLOCH CHRISTMAS (a short story) BRIDE OF FIRE BRIDE OF ICE BRIDE OF MIST The Knights of de Ware THE HANDFASTING (a novella) MY CHAMPION MY WARRIOR MY HERO Medieval Outlaws THE REIVER (a novella) DANGER'S KISS PASSION'S EXILE DESIRE'S RANSOM Scottish Lasses THE OUTCAST (a novella) MacFARLAND'S LASS MacADAM'S LASS MacKENZIE'S LASS California Legends THE STOWAWAY (a novella) NATIVE GOLD NATIVE WOLF NATIVE HAWK
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