Riots and After in Mumbai

Chronicles of Truth and Reconciliation
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-81-321-0700-2
Verlag: Sage Publications India

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Riots and After in Mumbai provides a synoptic record of events in Mumbai, focusing essentially on the history of riots in the city. Using this framework, it attempts to understand the sociopolitical and cultural realities of present-day Mumbai through a collection of narratives of the people affected by the communal riots of 1992-93.

The author uses a novel approach, combining historical records from the pre-Independence era (1893-1945) and personal interviews of both Muslims and Hindus living in the city. It also looks into the political manipulations that ordinary people of both communities alike are subjected to by the ruling powers and political parties.

This book will help the reader form a bridge between the Mumbai's past and present in order to better understand the relations between the two communities. On the one hand it undercuts the cosmopolitan image that the city holds, and on the other, speaks volumes of the reconciliation-without any real justice-that has happened over the years in the minds of the people who live together despite much brutality and strife.

Zielgruppe

National institutes, think tanks, civil society organizations, and academic libraries as reference material; and supplementary reading for scholars, students and researchers in the areas of sociology, political science, communalism and history, peace and conflict studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Menon, Meena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
The City of Gold

Cow Protection, Temple, and Mosque Disputes Go Way Back: A Chronicle of the Communal Riots in the Bombay Presidency

Jogeshwari Riots: Old Wounds, New Ghettos

Extended Ghettoes: Naya Nagar

Displacement and Polarisation

Loss of Livelihood

Perceptions of Justice

Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Menon, Meena
Meena Menon is Deputy Editor with The Hindu, Mumbai. She has been a journalist since 1984 and has worked with the United News of India (UNI), Mid-day, and The Times of India. In 2004, she published Organic Cotton: Reinventing the Wheel. Prior to this, she co-authored The Unseen Worker: On the Trail of the Girl Child, published in 1998. She has received fellowships from the National Foundation of India, New Delhi; Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi; Panos London, London; and Sarai–CSDS (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies), New Delhi. She writes on politics and developmental issues including environment, women, human rights and health.