Twentieth-century urbanization: in search of an urban paradigm for an urban world
In: Essays on global and comparative history
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In: Essays on global and comparative history
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 349-399
ISSN: 1469-8099
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 349-399
ISSN: 1469-8099
AbstractCommunal violence wracked the state of Gujarat and the city of Ahmedabad once again in 2002, leaving some 2,000 people dead. Because the ruling BJP party had proclaimed Gujarat the 'Laboratory of Hindutva', analysts throughout India saw the violence as BJP policy and debated its possible spillover effects elsewhere. This paper finds that in a period already marked by stressful economic and cultural change and attended by political uncertainty, some BJP leaders gambled that an attack on Gujarat's Muslims, and on the rule of law in general, would attract followers and voters. Their gamble proved correct at least in the short run. This paper examines the cultural, social, geographical and educational restructuring that is occurring, through legal and illegal struggles, and the impact of the violence upon these processes. It examines the declining status of Muslims as a result of continuous propaganda against them. It analyzes the degree to which the state was damaged as a result of the decision for violence and asks about the degree to which leaders do, or do not, wish to 'put it behind them', and suggests that Ahmedabad's problems are widely shared in both the developing and developed worlds.
In: Journal of world history: official journal of the World History Association, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 251-255
ISSN: 1527-8050
In: Journal of world history: official journal of the World History Association, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 92-96
ISSN: 1527-8050
In: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 193-202
ISSN: 1539-2988
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 518, Heft 1, S. 192-193
ISSN: 1552-3349
In: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 896-901
ISSN: 1539-2988
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 765-795
ISSN: 1469-8099
In 1985 riots racked the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, continuing for a period of almost half a year, form February through July, leaving some 275 people dead, thousands injured, tens of thousands homeless, and a loss of property and trade estimated at Rs 2,200 crores (US$1.75 thousand million) (India Today, 13 August 1985, pp. 60 and 119), in 'the most alarmingly sustained bout of rioting (as opposed to the sort of terrorism Punjab suffered…) since India's independence' (Manor 1986: 102).
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 765
ISSN: 0026-749X
In: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 829-834
ISSN: 1539-2988
In: African and Asian Studies, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 278-281
ISSN: 1569-2108
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 345-348
ISSN: 1469-8099
In: African and Asian Studies, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 178-179
ISSN: 1569-2108
In: African and Asian Studies, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 302-304
ISSN: 1569-2108