{"id":1047,"date":"2023-12-26T05:08:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T05:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gujaratriots.com\/gujaratriots\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2025-01-30T18:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:14:51","slug":"gujarat-riots-were-the-worst-ever-massacre-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gujaratriots.com\/gujaratriots\/2023\/12\/26\/gujarat-riots-were-the-worst-ever-massacre-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat riots were the \u2018worst ever massacre\u2019 in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Fact:<\/strong> Gujarat riots of 2002 AD were much lesser as compared to Gujarat\u2019s past riots of 1969 and 1985 AD. Gujarat also saw riots of a large scale in 1980, 1982, 1990-91- 92. Some people claim that even the 1987 Ahmedabad riots were worse than the 2002 riots in the state. And the 2002 riots were again much lesser as compared to the pre-Independence riots of the 1940\u2019s in Ahmedabad when the Hindu community took a sound beating.<\/p>

In the 1960s, in 10 years there were 2938 recorded riots in Gujarat under the Congress rule, as reported by the Reddy Commission, coming to an average of 3 riots every 4 days. In the horrific 1969 riots, curfew was imposed for 65 days in a row. In 1985, violence continued for as long as six months, from February to July.<\/p>

And there were many more riots far far worse than the 2002 Gujarat riots in India- not to talk of the 1947 Partition riots. Let it be repeated here that we consider even a single killing as one too many. There is no justification for a single death, be it a Hindu or a Muslim, but that doesn\u2019t give anyone the license to lie that \u201cThe Gujarat riots were the \u2018worst-ever massacre\u2019 in India\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>

Much worse riots took place in New Delhi in 1984 under the Congress Party\u2019s rule. Officially 3,000 people were killed. Ranganath Mishra Commission gave the number of 3874 out of which 2307 were in Delhi alone. Riots were also not limited to New Delhi then. They occurred in places like West Bengal, Tripura as well. Killings of more than 40,000 Indians have happened in Jammu and Kashmir state of India since 1989. 1,169 people (assuming all missing are dead, after the 7-year period) were killed in Gujarat in 2002 AD, for the sins of 2000 attackers of Godhra. Out of them, more than 250 are Hindus. Post-Godhra riots were neither \u2018pogrom\u2019, nor \u2018genocide\u2019, nor \u2018massacre\u2019. They were not even \u2018massacre\u2019, not to talk of the \u2018worst-ever massacre in India.\u2019<\/p>

There was no \u201cGujarat massacre of Muslims\u201d in the 2002 riots (except for incidents like Naroda Patiya, Gulberg Society, Ode, Pandarwada, and Sadarpura) but plain Hindu-Muslim riots in which hundreds of Hindus were also killed by Muslims even after the gruesome and horrific roasting of 59 Hindus- including 25 women and 15 children, in Godhra <\/strong>and 40,000 Hindus were also thrown out of their homes by Muslims.<\/p>

The worst-ever massacre was of the Hindus during the medieval times. Timur massacred some 1 lakh Hindus on a single day in Delhi in 1399. Nadirshah, the invader, massacred three to four lakh people in 1739 in Delhi. The massacres of Hindus in medieval India would have put Hitler\u2019s Nazi death-chambers of the 1930s to shame. These massacres happened under all the medieval rulers of India including Akbar- who ordered killing of 30,000 Hindus in February 1568, though he changed from 1570 onwards. Mahmud of Ghazni also massacred many Hindus in between 1001-1027 AD. Mohammad Ghori also did the same between 1192 to 1206. So did all others. The invaders were like a cloud of locusts destroying and devouring everything on their way.<\/p>

In fact, Professor K.S.Lal in his book \u201cGrowth of Muslim population in India\u201d has said that according to his calculations, the Hindu population declined by 80 million between AD 1000 and AD 1525- probably the biggest ever holocaust in world history. 8 crore Hindus were slaughtered by foreign Muslims in this period.<\/p>

For just a brief and cursory (very very brief and very very cursory) history of Islam in India,<\/strong> see this<\/a>. This doesn\u2019t focus on the mass murders and massacres of Hindus with detail, which have been given in the book (\u201cGujarat Riots: The True Story\u201d) but not included in this website.<\/p>

http:\/\/historyofmuslimattacks.blogspot.in\/2013\/02\/islam-in-india-history.html<\/a><\/p>

Pakistan and Bangladesh were also parts of India, and the Hindu population in West Pakistan has declined from 20 % in 1947 to around 1% now- perhaps the biggest unreported genocide, massacre and holocaust in recent times. In the 1971 East Pakistan genocide, Pakistani soldiers killed 30 lakh (i.e. 3 million) Bangladeshis, of whom at least 24 lakh i.e. 2.4 million were Hindus (targeting Hindus specifically, and also other Bengalis after their religious leaders declared that Bangladeshis are un-Islamic), and raped at least 2,50,000 women. <\/strong>Similarly, the Hindu population in Bangladesh has declined from 34 % in 1901 to 29 % in 1947, and to 10 % in 2001, and its around 8.6% as per the 2011 census. Even in India, the Hindu population has declined from 85 % in 1951 to 80.5 % in 2001- and according to the 2011 census it is already in the 70s at 79.8%, below 80%.<\/p>

Pakistan\u2019s tallest Hindu leader, Sudham Chand Chawla was killed in broad daylight in Jacobabad on 29 Jan 2002 while returning from his rice mill. The culprits were not nabbed, nor was any compensation given to his family. He had in fact been complaining to the so-called civil society of Pakistan for years about the threat to his life, to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and yet nobody did anything. If this was the case with the BIGGEST Hindu leader, then what must be the story of ordinary Hindus, who have already been reduced from 20 % in 1947 to just 1 % now?<\/p>

http:\/\/www.sudhamchandchawla.com\/<\/a><\/p>

Looking at the modern, independent India, these riots were still very lesser in intensity. The worst ever massacre in independent India was of the Hindus in Kashmir, which continues till date. After that, nothing was worse than the 1984 riots, when the Sikhs were massacred by the ruling Congress Party. In Bhagalpur, Bihar in 1989 under the Congress rule itself more than 1400 people were killed, most of whom were Muslims, after Muslims threw bombs on Hindu localities, and then suffered in retaliation. There were much worse riots in various other places, like in Assam in 1983, Moradabad, Jamshedpur, etc on many other occasions.<\/p>

To read the full chapter, read the book \u201cGujarat Riots: The True Story\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>

https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Gujarat-Riots-True-Story-Truth\/dp\/1482841649\/<\/a><\/p>

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