POL304Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Babri Masjid, Ethnic Nationalism, Conspiracy Theory
29 Jan 2017
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It forms a lot of theory and empirical evidence to ethnic conflict. Colonialism tends to have something to do with everything. Religious identity is always there, when colonial power came the these identities identified was new. Preferential treatment towards one group over one group. The origin politicized religion identities since the beginning. A site that is contested space with the mosque. Family of hindu nationalist organization to destroy the mosque. Embracing more ethnonationalist: mobilize on the term of religion. Destruction of the mosque by a large mob of hindu. Incidences of violences based on where advani visited, quite a few deaths related to where he visited. A train travelling back from ayodhya was essentially fire, essentially the circumstances were not known. There is some investigation that police helped the violence by providing where muslims lived. Modi was facing re-election, bjp prior to 2002 didn"t have strong grassroots in gujarat in compared to other places.
