By Megha Kumar

Sexual violence has been a customary characteristic of communal clash in India for the reason that independence in 1947. The Partition riots, which observed the brutal victimization of hundreds of thousands of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh girls, have to date ruled educational discussions of communal violence. This e-book examines the categorical stipulations motivating sexual crimes opposed to girls in accordance with 3 of the deadliest riots that happened in Ahmedabad urban, Gujarat, in 1969, 1985 and 2002. utilizing an in-depth, grassroots-level research, Megha Kumar strikes clear of the main educational view that sees Hindu nationalist ideology as chargeable for encouraging assaults on ladies. as a substitute, gendered communal violence is proven to be ruled via the interplay of an elite ideology.

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