1924 Kohat riots

The 1924 Kohat riots were major communal riots in Kohat in North-West Frontier Province, British India in 1924. In three days (9–11 September) of rioting, official statistics state that the total casualty-count was 155, of which the casualties of Hindus & Sikhs were more than three times that of the Muslims. Almost the entire population of Hindus living there, numbering 3,200, were evacuated and fled. It was described as a successful attempt to completely exterminate and erase the Hindu and Sikh communities in the region. In the surrounding villages, Hindus and Sikhs were also killed and had to flee the region although majority of them had aleady been exterminated by the Muslims.[1] Gandhi undertook a 21-day fast for Hindu-Muslim unity in October 1924.[2]

References
  1. McGinn, Patrick (1 November 1986). "Communalism and the North-West Frontier Province: the Kohat Riots, 9-10 September 1924". South Asia Research. 6 (2): 139–158. doi:10.1177/026272808600600204. ISSN 0262-7280.
  2. Sankar Ghose (1991). Mahatma Gandhi. Allied Publishers. ISBN 978-81-7023-205-6.
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