From: DNA, February 27, 2012
by RB Sreekumar
The Gujarat riots of 2002, in which nearly 1500 innocent Muslims were killed by riotous Hindu mobs across the state, has been the subject of many reports and analyses over the last 10 years. Apart from the reports written as Sangh Parivar's political propaganda, studies of this apocalyptic event have been undertaken either as an academic exercise or as a genuine attempt to understand what caused the whole tragedy.
The academic view sees the riots as mere failure of governance caused by in-built structural infirmities which allowed officials and politicians to manipulate the administrative machinery to their subjective goals.
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