7 Worst Riots That Rocked India

1969 Gujrat riots: It was 18th September 1969, the last day of Urs festival at the tomb of a Sufi saint, Bhukhari Saheb's Chilla. The violence crept up in the evening time  when the Jagannath Mandir cows while going back to temple premises disturbed the Urs. Following this, an important discussion took place that provoked communal tension with a series of violent incidences killing and soon in various parts of the city.

The riots of 1969 were biggest of its kind in Independent India having taken lives of thousands of persons. The violence was Gujarat's first major riot that involved massacre, arson and looting on a large scale. It is said to be the  most deadly Hindu-Muslim violence since the 1947 partition of India, and remained such until the 1989 Bhagalpur violence. It is reported that 660 people were killed, 1074 people were injured and over 48,000 lost their property.

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