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- ↑ "Bhiwandi riots: Four held from Malegaon". The Indian Express . 20 July 2006.
- ↑ Hansen 2001 , p. 77
- ↑ Asgharali Engineer (1991). Communal Riots in Post-independence India. Universities Press. p. 330. ISBN 8173701024.
- ↑ Hansen, Thomas Blom (2001). Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-08840-2.
