Gujarat Riots: the True Story

M D Deshpande

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With comprehensively documented arguments, this book reveals everything you need to know about the 2002 Gujarat riots. It is like an encyclopedia.
The 2002 violence in Gujarat, Godhra and after was reported widely by the media, both Indian and Global. The nature of the violence, the role of the state government, and also of the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi were massively debated and discussed. Many contrasting views have been expressed worldwide about the topic. This book reveals exactly what happened. With meticulous media research, it gives contemporary newspaper reports, official statistics and comprehensive analysis to reveal the full truth of the 2002 riots, and removes many misconceptions. It also gives a special chapter on the findings of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team. With comprehensively documented arguments, this is like an encyclopedia on the 2002 riots, reveals everything you need to know about the Gujarat violence.
Was the state government of Narendra Modi culpable, or did it handle the riots effectively? Was the violence after Godhra one-sided or was it plain riots in which both sides suffered? Were some reported incidents exaggerations or were they real brutal facts? The answers to all these questions are given comprehensively. A simple reading of the book will throw enough light and arm the readers with strong facts to make up their mind.

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• Political Science

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• Publié par: Partridge Publishing India
• Date de parution: 22 décembre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781482841633
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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GUJARAT RIOTS: THE TRUE STORY
THE TRUTH OF THE 2002 RIOTS 2nd Edition
M D DESHPANDE


Copyright © 2014 by M D Deshpande.
 
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978-1-4828-4165-7

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First edition: December 2014
Second edition: August 2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 HISTORY OF ATTACKS ON INDIA
CHAPTER 2 THE GODHRA CARNAGE
CHAPTER 3 ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT IN CONTROLLING VIOLENCE
CHAPTER 4 GUJARA T ’S BLOODY HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
CHAPTER 5 ATTACKS ON HINDUS
CHAPTER 6 ATTACKS ON MUSLIMS
CHAPTER 7 CONCOCTED LIES AND MYTHS AND THE FACTS
CHAPTER 8 CONTRASTS BETWEEN 1984 AND GUJARAT 2002 RIOTS
CHAPTER 9 ROLE OF THE RIVALS AND MEDIA IN INSTIGATING VIOLENCE
CHAPTER 10 SOME COURT JUDGMENTS
CHAPTER 11 TEHELKA LIES
CHAPTER 12 FINDINGS OF SIT
CHAPTER 13 THE CAUSES OF THE LIES
A REPLY TO SOME CRITICISM
CHAPTER 1
HISTORY OF ATTACKS ON INDIA
Wounds of the past continue to haunt the people. Without understanding the past, one can never fully understand the present. Therefore, we make an attempt to see a brief history of attacks on India- all done by foreigners. The aggressive design against India initiated in 636-37 AD by the Arabs and later on carried further by the groups from the Middle East, continued intermittently for centuries. These attacks started within 14 years of the start of the Islamic calendar in AD 622, and within 4 years of the death of the Prophet of Islam in AD 632.
The Godhra carnage of 27 February 2002 is not a product of the Ayodhya movement, or the Babri mosque demolition on 6 December 1992. There may be more Godhras in store. India has been bleeding from a thousand wounds. Belgium-based world-famous scholar, Dr. Koenraad Elst (b. 1959) has written:
“You wouldn’t guess it from their polished convent-school English, their trendy terminology, or their sanctimoniousness, but the likes of Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib or Gyanendra Pandey [ Our comment: Leftist historians who have denied the crimes of Muslim rulers in medieval India] have blood on their hands. The wave of Muslim violence after the Ayodhya demolition (and the boomerang of police repression and Shiv Sena retaliation) was at least partly due to the disinformation by supposed experts, who denied that the disputed building had a violent iconoclastic prehistory [ Our comment: i.e., mosque was built after demolishing an earlier temple at the spot] and implied that Hindus can get away with concocted history in their attacks on innocent mosques. This disinformation gave Muslim militants the sense of justification needed to mount a ‘revenge’ operation and to mobilize decent Muslims for acts of violence, which they never would have committed if they had known the truth about Islam’s guilt in Ayodhya”. ( Source: “BJP vis-à-vis Hindu Resurgence” by Dr . Koenraad Elst, Voice of India, 1997) .
Many Muslims genuinely believe that Islam spread in India due to Sufi saints and that Muslim rulers were tolerant or else the whole of India would have converted to Islam. This is wrong. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) said: “Hindu population as quoted b y Farishta, one of the earliest Muslim historians, was 60 crores (i.e. 600 million) in the 12 th century an d today [in 1899 AD] we are only 20 crores (i.e. 200 million)” . ( Complete Works , Vol. 5, p. 233). According to Wikisource this is also mentioned in a letter written by Swami Vivekananda to Miss Mary Hale on 30 th October, 1899 recorded in his Complete Works, Volume 8, Epistles- Fourth Series CXLV.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_8/Epistles_-_Fourth_Series/CXLV_Optimist
Well-known historian, Dr. K. S. Lal (1920-2002) has written in his book Growth of Muslim Population in India that according to his calculations, the Hindu population in India declined by 80 million from AD 1000 to AD 1525, perhaps the biggest ever holocaust in human history. This does not mean a mere 80 million killings. Some estimates put the number of Hindus killed in India as 280 million while Swami Vivekananda opined that the number was more than 400 million (Hindus reducing from 60 crores to 20 crores). The point is, many Muslims even today believe themselves as victims and deny the crimes committed by Muslims against others. For example, a shockingly large number of Muslims including well-educated, well-to-do people genuinely believe that 9/11 attacks on USA were done by Jews to make USA target Muslims, or by the USA Government itself. Same is the case with Godhra and many other cases like 26/11, where many simply deny that Islamic fanatics did these crimes and genuinely believe it.
We must quote only authentic sources to make our point clear. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has compiled Indian history in 11 volumes and the project was financed by the Jawaharlal Nehru Government (who no one can ever accuse of being ‘communal’). The chief editor is world- famous historian, the late R.C. Majumdar (1888-1980), who was Vice-President of the International Commission set up by UNESCO for the history of mankind and is one of the most respected historians. The Volumes on Indian history are contributed by many historians, including Muslim historians from the then East Pakistan (Bangladesh) and West Pakistan. To see the past, we simply quote Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s The History and Culture of the Indian People . It is hoped that these authentic quotes make everyone (Indian Muslims included) realize the truth of Islam’s spread and atrocities on Hindus.
The chronology that follows is incomplete but indicative-
636 AD
- Arabs attacked Thane, near Mumbai 1
c. 643
- Arabs invaded Debol at the mouth of the Sindhu 2
c. 660
- Arabs invaded Sindh 3
c. 661-680
- Arabs sent six expeditions against Sindh 4
661-680
- Arabs sent expeditions against Kabul and Zabul 5
685
- The Arabs killed the king of Zabul 6
699
- The Arabs ravaged Zabul 7
712
- Muhammad-bin-Qasim slaughtered many Hindus, killed King Dahir and captured Sindh and gave settlement to 4000 Muslims 8
724-738
- The Arabs sent several expeditions against Gujarat, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Broach, Malava, Vallamandal, Ujjain 9
c. 739
- The Arabs invaded Kathiawar 10
776
- The Arabs sent expedition against Barda, near Porbandar 11
c. 948 to 963
- Alptigin of Ghazni plundered Punjab several times 12
977-997
- Subuktigin of Ghazni plundered Punjab several times & carried immense wealth and killed many Hindus and converted many Hindus of Peshawar. 13 Jaipal was the King at that time.
998-1030
- Mahmud of Ghazni carried out several invasions, looted immense treasure, killed many Hindus and converted many Hindus 14
1000
- Mahmud of Ghazni seized some parts near Peshawar 15
1001
- Mahmud of Ghazni attacked the kingdom of Jaipal, slaughtered many Hindus, captured Jaipal and collected 250000 dinars and 25 elephants as ransom 16
1004
- Mahmud of Ghazni invaded Bagi Ray’s kingdom Bhatiya, plundered Bhatiya and converted many Hindus 17
1005-06
- Mahmud of Ghazni attacked Anandapal; in a battle near Peshawar, Anandapal was defeated 18
1007
- Mahmud of Ghazni attacked Sukhapal and plundered 400000 dirhams 19
1008
- Mahmud of Ghazni attacked Anandapal. 20000 Hindus were killed. Bhimnagar (=Nagarkot=Kot Kangra) was laid waste and 20 looted its treasury which consisted of 70,000,000 royal dirhams, 700400 mands of gold and jewellery & precious stones; clothes and garments 21
1009
- Mahmud of Ghazni attacked Narayanpur in Rajputana, broke many idols, killed many Hindus and took booty 22
1010
- Mahmud of Ghazni attacked Multan and killed a large n