Violence erupted in elements of Howrah over a Ram Navami Procession.
| Photograph Credit score: Debasish Bhaduri
Throughout this yr’s Ram Navami competition, a number of incidents of stone-pelting, offensive sloganeering, arson, and assault on non secular locations had been reported in West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Telangana, and Karnataka.
Ram Navami processions have turn out to be a communal flashpoint in recent times with a number of cases of swords, machetes, iron rods, and picket sticks being carried through the non secular processions reported.
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Right here, we try to hint the latest clashes linked to Ram Navami and the patterns behind the violence.
Mapping and reviewing the clashes from 2012-2023
The interactive map beneath exhibits the approximate places of a number of clashes that occurred since 2012. Listed here are some primary directions on learn how to use the map:
To view the main points of the conflict, together with location, yr, variety of accidents or deaths, click on on a highlighted level.
The person can filter by yr, whether or not there have been any casualties reported, and by State.
To undo the number of any of the three filters, click on the ‘Clear filter’ choice beneath every particular person filter (although a textual content cursor seems)
Choose or deselect a layer of the map by hovering over the widget underneath the title (which additionally serves because the legend)
Disclaimer: To create the interactive map above, The Hindu collated the information and data of the clashes from the newspaper’s personal archives and from different main information publications within the nation. Relating to the variety of accidents, The Hindu has used both the bottom potential quantity that was confirmed or a variety relying on information stories. Additionally, you will need to be aware that not all clashes could have obtained media protection. Thus, some clashes could not have been showcased right here.
The place have clashes occurred over time?
The purple dots point out the situation of the clashes that occurred in that individual yr.
The information for the final 11 years exhibits a big enhance within the variety of reported incidents of violence linked to Ram Navami processions. Between 2012 and 2015, only some clashes had been reported in West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh. The stories elevated between 2016 and 2019 in these States. In 2018, at the least 17 incidents of communal clashes of various depth had been reported throughout the States. The 2020-2021 interval, when the pandemic struck and there was the next countrywide lockdowns, was peaceable. In 2022, clashes had been reported once more in eight States.
The place do clashes occur typically?
The stories of violence are excessive in West Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand. A number of areas in these States have been witnessing violence up to now few years. As an illustration, Howrah in West Bengal noticed clashes occur in 2013, 2022 and this yr.
Disclaimer: Information contains solely incidents reported by outstanding information media homes throughout Ram Navami processions.
Sources: The Hindu, ANI, India Right this moment, Indian Specific, New Indian Specific, Hindustan Occasions, Occasions of India, Scroll, The Information Minute
(Compiled by Ramesh Chandran Ok P, Godhashri S, Gautam Nirmal Doshi, Sandra Cyriac, Abhinav Ashishkumar Chakraborthy, Shibu Narayan)
