Kites over the mango tree : restoring harmony between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat

Title
  1. Kites over the mango tree : restoring harmony between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat / Janet M. Powers ; foreword by Cedric Prakash.
Published by
  1. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2009.
Author
  1. Powers, Janet M., 1939-

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Description
  1. xiv, 205 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Summary
  1. Hindu nationalists in the west Indian state of Gujarat repudiate the pluralist vision of Gandhi and Nehru and foment state-sponsored violence and ethnic cleansing against Muslims and Christians. In 2002, the burning to death of 59 rightwing Hindu militants in a train in Gujarat set off waves of state-condoned communal riots in which as many as 2,000 predominantly Muslim Gujaratis were murdered and 200,000 made homeless. In the wake of these atrocities, secular peace-building organizations have redoubled their efforts to heal the rift between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat. A certified mediator, Janet Powers bases her book on interviews with workers in twenty of these peace-building NGOs and grassroots peace organizations, which are locked in struggle with politicized Hindu religious organizations largely funded by money raised in the United States. This is the first book to examine Hindu-Muslim relations in Gujarat in the frame of ongoing peace and conflict resolution efforts.
Subject
  1. Hindus > India > Gujarat
  2. Muslims > India > Gujarat
  3. Ethnic relations
  4. Hindus
  5. Muslims
  6. Minderheitenfrage
  7. Versöhnung
  8. Muslim
  9. Hindu
  10. Hindus > India > Gujarat
  11. Muslims > India > Gujarat
  12. Gujarat (India) > Ethnic relations
  13. India > Gujarat
  14. Gujarat
  15. Gujarat (India) > Ethnic relations
Contents
  1. 1992 and 2002 -- Kingdoms and conquest -- European dominance -- Mahatma Gandhi : Khalifat, partition, and beyond -- The Sangh Parivar organizations -- Muslim reformers and Islamic nationalists -- Motels and convenience stores -- SEWA : work as antidote to violence -- The Gujarat Harmony Project -- Recovering the future.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-195) and index.