Additional readings

A City Divided, illustration by Tabitha Percy

Resources about the 2002 Gujarat Pogrom

Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi's India | The New Yorker | 2019

In Gujarat, Anti-Muslim Legacy Of 2002 Riots Still Looms | NPR | 2013 

India: The Modi Question (Documentary) | BBC | 2023

Ahmedabad Journal; In India, a Child's Life Is Cheap Indeed | New York Times | 2002 

The Survivors Speak | Outlook India | 2002 

Burying the Massacred: In the Shade of Kalandari | First Post India | 2019 

Justice, the victim – Gujarat state fails to protect women from violence | Amnesty International Report | 2005 

The BJP and the Gujarat riots of 2002 | Al Jazeera | 2023 

Why India banned the BBC’s Modi documentary | Al Jazeera | 2023 

‘They Burnt My Parents Alive’: Gujarat Riots Still Haunt Victims | The Diplomat | 2022 

20 Years After Gujarat Riots, Muslim Survivors From Naroda Patiya Live Near A Mountain Of Trash | Article 14 | 2023 

Indian court acquits 69 people of murder of 11 Muslims during 2002 Gujarat riots | The Guardian | 2023 

Gujarat riots: Parading of bodies triggered conspiracy, Zakia tells SC | The Telegraph India | 2021 

Massacre trial exposes inconvenient truth for India's BJP | Reuters | 2012 

Civil Society in Conflict Cities | Economic & Political Weekly | 2009 

Gujarat riots: ‘They raped me, butchered my child because we were Muslims. 17 years on, I have justice – and faith in Indian law’ | South China Morning Post | 2019 

No one razed Wali Gujarati’s mazaar? | The Times of India | 2019 

"We Have No Orders to Save You." | Human Rights Watch | 2002 

Other books on the topic:

Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat | Dionne Bunsha | 2007 

The Anatomy Of Hate | Revati Laul | 2018 

Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a cover up | Rana Ayyub | 2016 

Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy | Siddharth Varadarajan | 2003 

Fear and Forgiveness | Harsh Mander | 2009 

Justice before Reconciliation: Negotiating a ‘New Normal’ in Post-riot Mumbai and Ahmedabad (Religion and Citizenship) | Dipankar Gupta | 2011 

In the Shadow of the Swastika | Marzia Casolari | 2020

Hostile Homelands | Azad Essa | 2023