Amid controversy, Guj govt extends Disturbed Areas Act to Savarkundla town #Amid #Guj #DisturbedAreasAct #Savarkundla #socialnewsxyz

https://www.socialnews.xyz/2023/07/15/amid-controversy-guj-govt-extends-disturbed-areas-act-to-savarkundla-town/

Saffron geographies of exclusion: The Disturbed Areas Act of Gujarat (research article by Sheba Yejani)

This article elucidates the discursive, spatial and procedural mechanisms by which residential segregation and ghettoisation based on religion in Ahmedabad is reproduced and reinforced.

It studies the application of the Disturbed Areas Act of Gujarat, a 1986 law ostensibly intended to curb spatial segregation based on religion by preventing the distress sale of property in ‘disturbed areas’ affected by sectarian violence. However, this law is being used for precisely opposite ends and as a tool of ‘ethnocratic urban planning’ to advance the Hindu right’s goal of separate and hierarchical nations based on religion and to actively ‘Hinduise’ urban space.

#gujarat #muslims #DisturbedAreasAct #ghettoisation #islamophobia #hindutva #BJP #UrbanPlanning #india #LongReads

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00420980221110738#:~:text=Introduced%20in%201986%20by%20the,disturbed'%20areas%20of%20a%20city

Forbidden Transactions Between Muslims and Hindus in Gujarat, India

A law that restricts Hindus from selling property to Muslims—and what that foretells about India’s future.

#gujarat #BJP #muslims #hindus #DisturbedAreasAct #law #segregation #GujaratPogrom #GujaratRiots #ahmedabad #RSS ##VHP #india

https://therevealer.org/forbidden-transactions-between-muslims-and-hindus-in-gujarat-india/