The Once and Future Riot

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Plt;bPgt;From the ground-breaking graphics journalist and author of Plt;iPgt;Palestine,Plt;/iPgt; a revelatory investigation of the deadly sectarian riots in 2013 Uttar Pradesh, India, and their urgent global significance todayPlt;/bPgt; Plt;bPgt;From the ground-breaking graphics journalist and author of Plt;iPgt;Palestine,Plt;/iPgt; a revelatory investigation of the deadly sectarian riots in 2013 Uttar Pradesh, India, and their urgent global significance todayPlt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Compared to other episodes of lethal Indian communal violence, the clashes in Uttar Pradesh in 2013, the Muzaffarnagar Riot, were a relatively small-scale affair. It had happened before and will probably happen again: Hindus and Muslims, armed with guns and swords, riled up by vitriolic rhetoric and a tangle of accusations, turn on one another. The truth fragments along religious lines, both in the lead-up to the rampage and in its bloody aftermath.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Joe Sacco immerses himself in Uttar Pradesh, speaking to government officials, political leaders, village chiefs, and especially the victims, who were mostly landless peasants, in a quest to understand this riot as an archetype of political violence. In the process, he probes the role of savagery in a democracy; the power of crowds, rather than leaders, to influence the course of events; the collision of competing narratives; and the accounts that perpetrators construct to explain away their participation in bloodshed.Plt;BRPg

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