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Uma Chakravarthi and Nandita Hakser's book, The Delhi Riots: Three Days in the Life of a Nation, has interviews with victims of the Delhi riots. H. S. Phoolka and human-rights activist and journalist Manoj Mitta wrote the first account of the riots, When a Tree Shook Delhi. HELIUM (a novel of 1984, published by Bloomsbury in 2013) by Jaspreet ...
The Khalistan movement is a separatist movement seeking to create a homeland for Sikhs by establishing an ethno ‐ religious sovereign state called Khalistan ( lit. ' land of the Khalsa ') in the Punjab region. [ 2] The proposed boundaries of Khalistan vary between different groups; some suggest the entirety of the Sikh-majority Indian state ...
In the 1950s the Punjabi Suba movement for linguistic reorganisation of the state of Punjab and status for the Punjabi language took place, which the government finally agreed to in 1966 after protests and recommendation of the States Reorganisation commission. [16] The state of East Punjab was later split into the states of Himachal Pradesh ...
Nonviolent civil rights and linguistic rights political movement. The Punjabi Suba movement was a long-drawn political agitation, launched by the Sikhs, demanding the creation of a Punjabi Suba, or Punjabi -speaking state, in the post-independence Indian state of East Punjab. [ 4] Led by the Akali Dal, it resulted in the formation of the state ...
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919. A large, peaceful crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, British India, during the annual Baishakhi fair to protest against the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of pro-independence activists Saifuddin Kitchlew and Satyapal.
The cause of death for Shubhkaran Singh, a 21-year-old protester, is undetermined. Farmers allege he died from police firing, while hospital records state he was "brought dead." No postmortem has been conducted yet. [42] [43] The other deceased include Gyan Singh (65), Manjeet Singh (72), Narendra Pal Singh (45) and Darshan Singh (62). [44] [45 ...
Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar Assassination of Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards Hindus. Sikhs. 3,350 (Government figures) 8,000‐30,000 (Independent estimate) N/A N/A [34] 1985 Gujarat riots: February –August 1985 Ahmedabad: Anger among upper castes about proposed increases to reservation for ...
The 2020 Delhi riots, or North East Delhi riots, were multiple waves of bloodshed, property destruction, and rioting in North East Delhi, beginning on 23 February 2020 and brought about chiefly by Hindu mobs attacking Muslims. [ 13][ 14] Of the 53 people killed, two-thirds were Muslims who were shot, slashed with repeated blows, or set on fire ...