ABSTRACT

This volume foregrounds some of the unknown or lesser-known incidents of xenophobia and genocide from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and Rwanda. It critically analyses the cultural and structural contexts triggering these various forms of genocides and xenophobia, and situates them within modern histories of violence and human tribulations. The book discusses various non-Western case studies, which include the communal violence incited by anti-CAA protests in Delhi; the expulsion and displacement of Kashmiri Pandits; xenophobic attitudes against illegal immigrants in Assam; genocide in Sylhet during the Liberation War of Bangladesh; the 1994 genocide in Rwanda; and incidences of human rights violations across the world.

A comprehensive and transdisciplinary text, the book will be useful for students and researchers of human geography, sociology, political science, social work, anthropology, colonialism and postcolonialism, nationalism, imperialism, human rights, and history.

chapter 2|19 pages

Nationalisms On(the)line

New Media and the Fanning of Fear and Xenophobia

chapter 3|24 pages

The Alchemy of a Sectarian Riot

New Delhi, 2020

chapter 4|30 pages

Genocide of Kashmiri Pandits

chapter 5|18 pages

Narratives, Violence and Consent

The Normalisation of State Violence in Jammu and Kashmir

chapter 6|20 pages

Communal Riot, Pogrom, or Genocide?

Framing and Naming the Anti-Sikh Violence of Delhi 1984

chapter 8|16 pages

‘Recovering Violent Pasts’

Revisiting Moments of Xenophobic Violence and Uprooting from Partitioned North-East India

chapter 10|17 pages

Ethnic Violence in Sri Lanka

Politics of Sinhala-Tamil Tensions

chapter 11|17 pages

Xenophobia in South Africa

Can this Morph into Genocide?

chapter 12|25 pages

1994 Rwanda Holocaust

A Critical Analysis of Xenophobia Mutating to Genocide against the Tutsi