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Delhi-Meerut riots: Analysis, compilation and documentation

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Delhi; Ajanta Publications; 1988Description: 264pISBN:
  • 8120201981
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.62 ENG
Summary: This volume presents eye witness accounts of gruesome outburst of Hindu-Muslim communal frenzy that rocked Delhi and Meerut in May 1987. The accounts are all from the pens of prominent journalists whose professional integrity has never been in doubt. The focal point of description is the way ruling politicians' colluded with the rank communalists riffraffs and scums in unbelievable acts of arson and rape, rage and pillage. In their analyses, the contributors disdain to conceal their view that the events are remindful of Hitlerite barbarities' and 'Nazi program against the Jews'. While indicating the masterminds who were behind the perpetration of inconceivable brutalities. they see ray of hope in the ordinary people, both Hindu and Muslim, who sincerely believe in peaceful and amicable co-existence. 'Their voice seems to be feeble... but given will it can be made... effective. They must come together and pool their re sources and organise an active campaign.... It will make the communalists on either side defensive.... All that in needed is to shake our complacency and act.
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This volume presents eye witness accounts of gruesome outburst of Hindu-Muslim communal frenzy that rocked Delhi and Meerut in May 1987. The accounts are all from the pens of prominent journalists whose professional integrity has never been in doubt.

The focal point of description is the way ruling politicians' colluded with the rank communalists riffraffs and scums in unbelievable acts of arson and rape, rage and pillage. In their analyses, the contributors disdain to conceal their view that the events are remindful of Hitlerite barbarities' and 'Nazi program against the Jews'. While indicating the masterminds who were behind the perpetration of inconceivable brutalities. they see ray of hope in the ordinary people, both Hindu and Muslim, who sincerely believe in peaceful and amicable co-existence. 'Their voice seems to be feeble... but given will it can be made... effective. They must come together and pool their re sources and organise an active campaign.... It will make the communalists on either side defensive.... All that in needed is to shake our complacency and act.

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