Centre For Education and Documentation - Communalism:Godhra Carnage
THE RAZOR'S EDGE
a factsheet on Communlism in the eighties
Communalism exists on an interface between tradition and
modernity, history and journalism. It is at once a legacy of the past whose present is
being constantly augmented. The predominant considerations had in mind for this report was
that it did not necessarily have to arrive with totality and certainty at one definitive
approach or even propose any solutions or positions vis-a-vis present-day communalism.
Instead recognised several hierarchies of communalism and decided to explore some of them.
The essays in this collection are interventions at some of the various
levels of comunalism identified. While each of the essays stands on its own and is of
contemporary relevance, there is no sum of the parts that will be found within.
THE GUJARAT CARNAGE
looking back; loking forward
WHETHER GODHRA WAS PRE-PLANNED OR NOT, it definitely was an excuse
for brandishing the saffron flag and openly giving vent to the long nutured hatred against
the Muslim community ...
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Summary / Highlights of
Various Reports on `Gujarat
Carnage'
Critical Concerns
