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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Riots in Gujarat, India over the removal of a shrine}}<br />
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| title = 2006 Vadodara riots<br />
| partof =<br />
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| map_type =India Gujarat<br />
| map_label = Vadodara<br />
| map_caption = Location of riots in Gujarat, India<br />
|date= {{Start date|df=yes|2006|05|01}} – {{End date|df=yes|2006|05|03}}<br> (3 Days)<br />
| place = [[Vadodara district]], [[Gujarat]], India<br />
| coordinates = {{coord|22.303176|N|73.210545|E|display=inline,title}}<br />
| causes = Caused by the municipal council's decision to remove the 200-year-old dargah<br />
| fatalities = 8<br />
| injuries = 42<br />
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The '''2006 Vadodara riots''' also known as the '''2006 Dargah riots''' occurred on 1 May of that year in the city of [[Vadodara]] in the state of [[Gujarat]] in India.<ref name="Pelly 2008" /><ref name="Jaffrelot 2006 p. 179"/> The riots were caused by the [[Municipal council (India)|municipal council]]'s decision to remove the ''[[dargah]]'' (shrine) of Syed Chishti Rashiduddin, a medieval [[Sufi]] saint.<ref name="Westcoat 2008"/> The shrine was between two and three hundred years old.<ref name="Bunsha 2006" /><ref name="Pelly 2009" /> The incident resulted in six to eight people being killed and forty-two injured, 16 of these were from police shooting.<ref name="Bunsha 2006" /><ref name="Jaffrelot 2011" /><br />
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==Background==<br />
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The ''dargah'' was first mentioned in a municipal survey carried out in 1912, when Vadodara was the princely state of [[Baroda State|Baroda]] ruled by [[Sayajirao Gaekwad III]].<ref name="Damle 2007"/> <!--in 2006?-->The city [[Mayor]], Sunil Solanki, had said that the council were removing illegal buildings as part of a road widening programme and that they had already removed 20 temples and three dargahs.<ref name="Bunsha 2006" /><br />
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On 2 April, the [[Gujarat High Court]] looked into the incidents [[Sua sponte|suo motu]] and decided that "encroachments on public roads cannot be tolerated", and that if needed, "anti-socials" who opposed these demolitions should be arrested before the demolition was carried out. The [[Supreme Court of India|Supreme Court]] overturned the judgment on 4 April and ordered a temporary stay on demolition of illegal religious structures, due to the situation being volatile."<ref name="Bunsha 2006" /><br />
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The [[Commissioner of Police (India)|commissioner for police]], Deepak Swaroop, had requested caution on the issue. But Solanki insisted on the programme continuing as the shrine was in the way of development. It is reported that he said "If the police and the corporation will not do it, our boys in the [[Bajrang Dal]] will do it."<ref name="Bunsha 2006" /><ref name="Thakur 2006"/><br />
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==Riots==<br />
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On the first day<!-- the day of the decision, the day after it, or later/when the rioting began?--> it is estimated that eighteen people were injured and thirty-eight placed under arrest. The police have stated that they had at first used tear gas and batons in an attempt to control the crowd, but were left with no option other than to shoot.<ref name="BBC 2006"/> On 2 May there were incidents of violence between Muslims and Hindus in several areas.<ref name="CNN-IBN 2006"/> On 3 May the [[Government of Gujarat|State Government]] requested that the [[Government of India|federal government]] provide additional security personnel. A Muslim man had been burned to death in his car by a 1,500 strong crowd, and cases of arson had been reported. People were also evacuated out of the Ajabdi Mills area as a precaution.<ref name="BBC 2006"/><ref name="CNN-IBN 2006"/><br />
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[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] wrote of the incident unlike the riots of 2002, this was only a skirmish. There were spontaneous clashes between two communities. There were casualties on both sides, of innocent people just like in 2002 but at much milder scale. The [[2002 Gujarat violence|violence of 2002]] was a far more widespread and has been opined to be a state-sponsored, planned and systematic targeting of Muslims."<ref name="Bunsha 2006" /> The [[Indian People's Tribunal|Independent People's Tribunal]], an [[Non-governmental organization|NGO]] has stated that the police had [[Anti-Muslim violence in India|targeted]] Muslims during the incident.<ref name="Pelly 2009" /><br />
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The home minister for Gujarat, [[Amit Shah]], stated that as a result of the incident paramilitary forces had been deployed and security increased in five of Gujarat's districts.<ref name="BBC 2006"/><br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[1969 Gujarat riots]]<br />
*[[1985 Gujarat riots]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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<ref name="Pelly 2008">{{cite book|last=Pelly|first=Grace|title=State Terrorism: Torture, Extra-judicial Killings, and Forced Disappearances in India|year=2008|publisher=Human Rights Law Network|pages=194–195|url=http://koha.hrln.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1772|access-date=5 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303210220/http://koha.hrln.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=1772|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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<ref name="Pelly 2009"><br />
{{cite book|last=Pelly|first=Grace|title=State Terrorism: Torture, Extra-judicial Killings, and Forced Disappearances|year=2009|publisher=Human Rights Law Network|isbn=978-81-89479-47-3|pages=194–195}}<br />
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<ref name="Bunsha 2006">{{cite news|last=Bunsha|first=Dionne|title=Killing zeal|url=http://www.frontline.in/navigation/?type=static&page=flonnet&rdurl=fl2309/stories/20060519003802000.htm|magazine=Frontline|volume=23|issue=9|date=6 May 2006|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130706234034/http://www.frontline.in/navigation/?type=static&page=flonnet&rdurl=fl2309/stories/20060519003802000.htm|archive-date=6 July 2013|url-status=live|access-date=5 September 2018}}</ref><br />
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<ref name="Westcoat 2008"><br />
{{cite book|last=Westcoat|first=James L.|title=Cultural Heritage and Human Rights|year=2008|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0387765792|page=59|editor=Helaine Silverman, [[D. Fairchild Ruggles]]}}<br />
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<ref name="Damle 2007"><br />
{{cite book|last=Damle|first=Shweta|title=Secularism and Secular Action|year=2007|publisher=Centre for Education & Documentation|page=1|url=http://ced.org.in/docs/ced/publications/Secularism-and-Secular-Action.pdf}}<br />
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<ref name="Jaffrelot 2011"><br />
{{cite book|last=Jaffrelot|first=Christophe|title=Religion, Caste, and Politics in India|year=2011|publisher=C Hurst & Co|isbn=978-1849041386|page=393}}<br />
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<ref name="BBC 2006"><br />
{{cite news|title=India troops patrol riot-hit city|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4968402.stm|publisher=BBC|date=4 May 2006}}<br />
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<ref name="CNN-IBN 2006"><br />
{{cite news|title=Mob burns man alive in Vadodara|url=http://www.news18.com/videos/india/mob-burns-man-alive-in-vadodara-234885.html|publisher=CNN-IBN|date=3 May 2006}}<br />
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<ref name="Thakur 2006"><br />
{{cite news|last=Thakur |first=Sankarshan |title=The Secular Lies of Vadodara |url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main18.asp?filename=Ne052006The_Secular_CS.asp |newspaper=Tehelka |date=20 May 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304022625/http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main18.asp?filename=Ne052006The_Secular_CS.asp |archivedate=4 March 2016 }}<br />
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<ref name="Jaffrelot 2006 p. 179"><br />
{{cite book|last=Jaffrelot|first=Christopher|title=Religion and Violence in South Asia|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0415372916|page=179|editor=John Hinnells, Richard King}}<br />
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