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Violence against Muslimsin independent India. An attack on a railway train carrying Muslim refugees during the Partition of India was carried out at Amritsar in Indian Punjab on 22 September 1947. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Three thousand Muslim refugees were killed [ 1][ 2] and a further one thousand wounded. [ 4] Only one hundred passengers remained ...
The 1947 Kamoke train massacre was an attack on a refugee train and subsequent massacre of Hindu and Sikh refugees by a Muslim mob at Kamoke, Pakistan on 24 September 1947 following the partition of India. [ 2] The train was carrying around 3,000-3,500 refugees from West Punjab [ 3] and was attacked 25 miles from Lahore by a mob of thousands of ...
1947 Jammu massacres. A large number of Hindus and Sikhs in Rajouri, [2] and in Mirpur. [6] After the Partition of India, during October–November 1947 in the Jammu region of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, many Muslims were massacred and others driven away to West Punjab. The killings were carried out by extremist Hindus and Sikhs ...
On 5 May, Muslim rioters attacked Bhilwas locality in the Shah Alam area. [99] Hindu doctors were asked to stop practicing in Muslim areas after one Hindu doctor was stabbed. [100] Frontline magazine reported that in Ahmedabad of the 249 bodies recovered by 5 March, thirty were Hindu. Of the Hindus that had been killed, thirteen had died as a ...
The Godhra train burning occurred on the morning of 27 February 2002: 59 Hindu pilgrims and karsevaks returning from Ayodhya were killed in a fire inside the Sabarmati Express near the Godhra railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat. [ 1] The cause of the fire remains disputed. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The Gujarat riots, in which Muslims were the ...
The 1948 Gujrat train massacre was an attack on a refugee train and massacre of Hindu and Sikh refugees by armed Muslim Pathans at Gujrat, Pakistan on 12 January 1948. [1] [2] 1,300–1,600 Hindus and Sikhs were killed in the massacre, 150 were wounded. [3] [4] The train was carrying 2,400 Hindu and Sikh refugees from the North West Frontier ...
The 1990 Aligarh riots were an outbreak of violent conflict between Hindu and Muslim Indians between December 7-10, 1990. It was part of a wave of riots in several major Indian cities that lead to hundreds of deaths in December of 1990. Between 75 and 200 people were killed in Aligarh. Official reports claim that 92 were killed, two-thirds of ...
The 1969 Gujarat riots involved communal violence between Hindus and Muslims during September–October 1969, in Gujarat, India. The violence was Gujarat's first major riot that involved massacre, arson, and looting on a large scale. It was the most deadly Hindu-Muslim violence since the partition of India in 1947, and remained so until the ...