Presenters
Laliwala Sharik - Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United StatesPathan Gufran - CEGA, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
Panel
96 – Anti-Muslim violence in times of Hindutva: Histories, modalities, futuresAbstract
Scholars often examine the impact of anti-Muslim violence on residential segregation in India by focusing on large-scale events like the 2002 Gujarat pogrom. However, India’s shift toward Hindu nationalism has coincided with a new form of violence: low-intensity, localized incidents, such as public lynchings over cow slaughter allegations. This paper conducts a large-N analysis to explore the effects of such localized violence on residential segregation, contrasting these with two major large-scale events, i.e., Muzaffarnagar (2013) and Delhi (2020). Using difference-in-difference analysis and exploiting spatial and temporal variations in violence, we aim to reveal the impact of these episodes on segregation patterns by leveraging two novel datasets—i) a geocoded hate crime database and ii) national voter rolls across years.
