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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''1925 Indian riots''' were sixteen communal riots which occurred throughout [[British India]]. Reported as being among the worst were in March in [[Delhi]], during September in [[Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh|Aligarh]], at [[Arvi, Wardha|Arvi]] in the [[Wardha district]] and in [[Solapur]].{{sfn|Simon|1930|p=100}}<br />
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== Aligarh ==<br />
The Aligarh riot occurred on 22 September 1925 in the [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]] in [[British India]] (now the state of [[Uttar Pradesh]]) . Of the 16 communal riots that occurred that year, it was counted as one of the most severe. The [[The Times|''London Times'']] wrote two stories on the riots.{{sfn|Brass|2005|p=70}} The riot was confined to Aligarh,{{sfn|Bapu|2012|p=173}} which is in the top five of most riot prone cities in India.{{sfn|Gayer|2012|p=136}} According to a report from the ''[[Singapore Free Press]]'', on 24 September 1925, it had been said the rioting was caused by Muslims throwing stones at Hindus during the festival of [[Ramlila]], the Hindus retaliated and in the ensuing violence sixty Muslim men and women were injured and twelve Hindus were hospitalized.{{sfn|Free Press|1925}}<br />
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[[Sheikh Abdullah]], at a [[Indian Union Muslim League|Muslim League]] conference at Aligarh, likened the year-long violence to the [[Crusades]] and said that the most serious danger that Muslims had ever had to deal with was the ongoing Hindu resurgence.{{sfn|Cell|2002|p=135}} The official number of those killed in the riot was six, four Muslims and two Hindus.{{sfn|Gayer|2012|p=136}}{{sfn|Brass|2005|p=71}}<br />
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*{{cite book|last=Simon|first=Viscount John Allsebrook|title=Memoranda submitted by the government of India and the India office|year=1930|publisher=Government of India Central Publication Branch|location=University of Wisconsin|page=100}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Brass|first=Paul R.|title=The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India|year=2005|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-98506-0|page=70}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Bapu|first=Prabhu|title=Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930: Constructing Nation and History|year=2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-67165-1|page=173}}<br />
*{{cite news|last=Free Press|first=Singapore|title=Riots at Aligarh|newspaper=Singapore Free Press|date=26 September 1925}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Gayer|first=Laurent|title=Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation|year=2012|publisher=C Hurst & Co|isbn=978-1-84904-176-8|page=136|editor=Christophe Jaffrelot}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Cell|first=John W.|title=Hailey: A Study in British Imperialism, 1872-1969|year=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52117-8|page=135}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Horowitz|first=Donald L.|title=The Deadly Ethnic Riot|year=2001|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-22447-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/deadlyethnicriot00horo/page/244 244]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/deadlyethnicriot00horo/page/244}}<br />
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