1984 Bhiwandi riot

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The 1984 Bhiwandi riot was a Hindu-Muslim riot that occurred in May 1984 in and around Bhiwandi town in Indian state of Maharashtra. It left 146 people dead and over 600 injured. [1] [2] On 17 May 1984, riots broke out in industrial belt from Bombay, Thane, and Bhiwandi. In all, 278 were killed and 1,118 were wounded. [3] [4] [5] The Shiv Sena's increasingly harsh anti-Muslim rhetoric and radical tactics, which emerged from 1984, were directly related to these riots. In April 1984, at Chowpatty Beach in Bombay, Bal Thackeray delivered an anti-Muslim speech in which he repeatedly employed the offensive term landya and called Muslims "a cancer on this country", stating:

Its only cure is operation.... Oh, Hindus, take weapons in your hands and remove this cancer from its very roots. [6]

1984 Bhiwandi riot
Date1984 May
Location
Bhiwandi, India
GoalsHindu-Muslim conflicts
Casualties
Death(s)278 were killed and 1,118 were wounded.


References

  1. ↑ Ghosh, Srikanta (22 September 1997). Indian Democracy Derailed Politics and Politicians. APH Publishing. ISBN   9788170248668.
  2. ↑ "Bhiwandi riots: Four held from Malegaon". The Indian Express . 20 July 2006.
  3. ↑ Hansen 2001 , p.  77
  4. ↑ Asgharali Engineer (1991). Communal Riots in Post-independence India. Universities Press. p. 330. ISBN   8173701024.
  5. ↑ Hansen, Thomas Blom (2001). Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay. Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0-691-08840-2.
  6. ↑ Hansen, Thomas Blom (5 June 2018). Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay. Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0-691-18862-1.


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