Asghar Ali Engineer on Communal Riots
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Communal clashes rock Karnataka town [September 2002]
[Source] [From September 2002] New Delhi: South Indian city of KR Nagar witnessed a rise in communal temperature on September 13 evening following a clash between two youths taking on a communal colour. The tension led to communal clashes in the Karnataka state town the following morning and police resorted to lobbing of teargas shells ...
|Report| Police Atrocities and Human Rights Violations at Katipalla [2002]
PUCL Bulletin, January 2002 Karnataka: Mangalore PUCL Police Atrocities and Human Rights Violations at Katipalla By P.B. D’Sa Thursday 23rd 2001 morning about 100 men in uniform stormed the Katipalla town with Lathis, Tear Gas cells and guns to the utter shock of the unsuspecting citizens of this locality .The Police personnel beat up every ...
The Killing Fields: Communalism in Karnataka
THE KILLING FIELDS: Communalism in Karnataka The Constitution of India (1950) guarantees both the freedom of speech and expression (Article 19 (1) (a) and the right to freedom of religion and religious worship (Article 25). Each of these fundamental rights are expressly made subject to public order; Article 19 (2) and Article 25 (1) i.e. ...
|Report| 1992: Communal Situation in Belgaum, Dharwad and Hubli
[From the Archives] [Read full text of the report] A Study of the Communal Situation in Belgaum, Dharwad and Hubli by CFD-K/PUCL-K Team related to the aftermath of violence of December 1992 ...
|REPORT| Events of December 1992
From the Archives [Read the full Report] A Report by: Citizens for Democracy- Karnataka, People’s Union for Civil Liberties- Karnataka, Karnataka Civil Liberties Committee and Karnataka Ekta Karnataka has the dubious distinction of being ranked third in India and the first state in the South in the riots that broke out all over the country ...
“Dargah versus Peeta”
[From the Archives] [Full Paper] “Dargah versus Peeta”: Hindutva’s Politics of Appropriating Syncretic Culture in Karnataka A paper by : Dr.Muzaffar Assadi Dept of Studies in Political Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore 570 0006, Karnataka For the past couple of years, Karnataka is witnessing the growth of communal politics, manifested in the form of ...
|Report| Riots in Kolar
A REPORT OF RIOTS IN KOLAR REPORT OF RIOTS IN KOLAR – PUCL (K) AND CFD (K) On 2.10.1990, Kolar was rocked with communal violence. The clashes between two communities Hindu – Muslim resulted in a long curfew of 78 days in the town; a record of sots in South India!! The clashes were the ...