India: The Puzzle of the BJP's Muslim Supporters in Gujarat (Raheel Dhattiwala)

POLICY REPORT NO. 5
The Puzzle of the BJP's Muslim Supporters in Gujarat

by Raheel Dhattiwala

Excerpt from Abstract:
This report examines an extant political phenomenon in the State of Gujarat: the support of Muslims for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that many Muslims perceive as responsible for the brutal violence in the State in 2002 when at least a thousand Muslims were killed. Findings and implications presented in this report are based on 23 months of ethnographic fieldwork—in periods spanning three elections in 2010, 2012 and 2014—and an analysis of 101 polling booths in Ahmedabad city. [. . .]

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