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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Violence against Muslims in India}}<br />
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{{Infobox civilian attack<br />
| title = 1984 Maharashtra riots<br />
| location = [[Maharashtra]], India<br />
| date = May 1984<br />
| target = [[Muslims]]<br />
| fatalities = 278<br />
| injuries = 1,118<br />
| perpetrator = [[Shiv Sena]]<br />
}}<br />
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In May 1984, a month long series of [[Violence against Muslims in India|religious violence against Muslims]] occurred in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The violence primarily occurred around [[Bhiwandi]] town. It left 146 people dead and over 600 injured.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RGyO0E86X1oC&pg=PA87|title=Indian Democracy Derailed Politics and Politicians|first=Srikanta|last=Ghosh|date=22 September 1997|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=9788170248668}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Bhiwandi riots: Four held from Malegaon|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bhiwandi-riots-four-held-from-malegaon/8858/ |work=[[The Indian Express]]|date= 20 July 2006 }}</ref> On 17 May 1984, riots broke out in industrial belt from [[Bombay]], [[Thane]], and [[Bhiwandi]]. Overall, 278 were killed and 1,118 were left wounded.<ref>{{harvnb|Hansen|2001|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=-y3iNt0djbQC&pg=PA77 77]|Ref=bhi84}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Communal Riots in Post-independence India|author=Asgharali Engineer |authorlink= Asgharali Engineer|publisher= Universities Press|year= 1991|isbn=8173701024 |page=330 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yB5NM0o3I9QC&pg=PA330}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-y3iNt0djbQC|last=Hansen|first=Thomas Blom|title=Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-08840-2|year=2001|ref=bhi84}}</ref> The increasingly harsh [[Islamophobia|anti-Muslim rhetoric]] and radical tactics of the [[Shiv Sena]], a [[Hindutva]] political party, directly caused the riots. In April 1984, at Chowpatty Beach in Bombay, [[Bal Thackeray]] delivered an anti-Muslim speech in which he repeatedly employed the offensive term ''landya'' and called Muslims "a cancer."<ref name=":0" />{{blockquote|Its only cure is operation.... Oh, Hindus, take weapons in your hands and remove this cancer from its very roots.|author=[[Bal Thackeray]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Hansen |first=Thomas Blom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bf5ZDwAAQBAJ&dq=1984+Bhiwandi+anti+Muslim&pg=PA76 |title=Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay |date=2018-06-05 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-18862-1 |language=en}}</ref>}}<br />
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* [https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/23/world/a-horror-story-in-india-survivors-tell-of-attack.html A HORROR STORY IN INDIA: SURVIVORS TELL OF ATTACK]<br />
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