Genocides and Xenophobia in South Asia and Beyond

Rituparna Bhattacharyya holds a PhD from the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle, UK. She is a senior fellow at Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy), UK, and an adjunct professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. She also works as a research consultant and editor-in-chief (Joint) of the journal Space and Culture, India. She does volunteer work at the Prag Foundation for Capacity Building, a public charitable trust in India, and the Alliance for Community Capacity Building for North East India, a UK-registered charity. She has more than 65 publications to her credit with international publishing houses. Her latest book is Bhattacharyya, R. (2023). North East India Through the Ages: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Prehistory, History, and Oral History. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis.

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Foreword

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Understanding Xenophobia and Genocide

RITUPARNA BHATTACHARYYA

2 Nationalisms On(the)line: New Media and the Fanning of Fear and Xenophobia

APARAJITA DE AND VIVEK TRIPATHI

3 The Alchemy of a Sectarian Riot: New Delhi, 2020

AJOY ASHIRWAD MAHAPRASHASTA

4 Genocide of Kashmiri Pandits

KULBHUSHAN WARIKOO

5 Narratives, Violence and Consent: The Normalisation of State Violence in Jammu and Kashmir

DEVIKA MITTAL

6 Communal Riot, Pogrom, or Genocide? Framing and Naming the Anti-Sikh Violence of Delhi 1984

SILVIA TIERI

7 Is Assam Under the Shackle of a Silent Genocide?

RITUPARNA BHATTACHARYYA AND PRANJIT KUMAR SARMA

8 ‘Recovering Violent Pasts’: Revisiting moments of Xenophobic Violence and Uprooting from Partitioned North-East India

BINAYAK DUTTA

9 Genocide in Sylhet during the Liberation War of Bangladesh

TULSHI KUMAR DAS AND MOHAMMAD JAHIRUL HOQUE

10 Ethnic Violence in Sri Lanka: Politics of Sinhala- Tamil Tensions

ROSHNI KAPUR AND AMIT RANJAN

11 Xenophobia in South Africa: Can this Morph into Genocide?

BRIJ MAHARAJ AND STEVEN LAWRENCE GORDON

12 1994 Rwanda Holocaust: A Critical Analysis of Xenophobia Mutating to Genocide against the Tutsi

RITUPARNA BHATTACHARYYA, VENKAT RAO PULLA, CHARLES KALINGANIRE, AND GASPARD RWANYIZIRI

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