08-10-2005, 01:14 AM
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Some listing of riots in post independence era. List might not be complete or accurate. Feel free to add/modify/change the list. Links to details and/or commissions findings, list of those arrested, names of PMs and CMs etc.. would be helpful too.
Some listing of riots in post independence era. List might not be complete or accurate. Feel free to add/modify/change the list. Links to details and/or commissions findings, list of those arrested, names of PMs and CMs etc.. would be helpful too.
- Jabalpur '61
- January to March 1964 - 264 killed in Calcutta and 346 in Bihar and Orissa
- August 1967 - 200 were killed in Ranchi
- November 1969 - 1000 killed in Gujarat (Justice Jagmohan Reddy Commission)
- Bhiwandi, Jalgaon and Mahad riots of 1970 (Justice D P Madon Commission), 250+ killed
- Tellicherry riot of 1971 (Justice Joseph Vithyathil Commission)
- Jamshedpur riots of 1978
- April 1979 - 117 killed in Bihar
- August 1980 - 119 killed in Moradabad
- 1981 - Biharsharif, Bihar
- September 1982 - 100 killed in Meerut
- 1982, 1026 killed in Meenakshipuram
- Kanyakumari riots of 1982 (Justice Venugopal Commission)
- 1983 - Neille 1000+ killed
- May 1984 - 230 killed in Maharashtra
- October 1984 - 1277 killed in Delhi and other places (some places have this number as high as 4000)
- 1984 Bhiwandi
- May 1987 - 100 killed in Delhi and UP
- 1989 - 1026 killed in Bhagalpur
- Madhav Singh Solanki chief minister of Gujarat on three occasions, 276 people died in 117 incidents of mob violence
- Amar Singh Chaudhuri CM of Gujarat, 582 persons died in 413 incidents of violence.
- Chimanbhai Patel CM of Gujarat , who was chief minister twice, 563 persons died in 370 incidents of violence.
- 1990 Somnath to Ayodhya, 220 people died;
- October 1990 - 87 killed in Bijnore
- December, 1990 - 200 killed in Hyderabad
- December 1990 100 - killed in Aligarh
- December 1992 - 200 killed in Bombay, 300 killed in Surat
- Mumbai riots of 1992-1993 (Justice Srikrishna Commission)
- 1992 riots after Babri demolition 325 people were dead and in 1993 another 116 people lost their lives
- January, 1993 - 215 killed in Gujarat, 557 killed in Bombay, 98 killed in Manipur