Background Materials

   Discriminatory Justice (Teesta Setalvad, Sabrang)

   Narratives of Survivors and State Response to the 1992-1993 Violence
    in Bombay
(Meena Menon, journalist and author)

   Communalism and The Secular State - Religious Liberty in Gujarat,
    Kandhamal and Karnataka
(Sabrang/CJP, 2010)                                       

   Freedom of Religion in India: A Report to the United Nations Council for the
    United Periodic Review 2012
 
(National Solidarity Forum)

  Politics of Revenge Understanding 1984 Anti-Sikh Carnage
   (Dr. Amarjit Singh Narang, The Sikh Forum, Delhi)

  Impunity Punctured,The Naroda Patiya Verdict
   (Economic and Political Weekly,
December 22, 2012)

  Twenty Years of Babri Masjid Demoltion (Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer)

  Communal Riots 2012 (Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer)

  Police and Communal Violence
    (Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer, September 16-30, 2012)

  The end of impunity  (Teesta Setalvad, The Indian Express, 2 March 2010)

  A bill to settle a terrible debt (Siddharth Vardarajan, The Hindu, June 21, 2011)

   Accountability for Mass Violence - Examining the State's Record
    (Centre for Equity Studies, New Delhi)

  The Communal and Targeted Violence Bill
    (Mihir Desai, Economic and Political Weekly, July 30, 2011)

   Targeting the Law Breakers 
    (Javed Anand, Economic and Political Weekly, August 20, 2011)

   ACT Now - Why the Communal and Targeted Violence Bill needs to be
     codified into law, Teesta Setalvad, Communalism Combat, November 2011
    

   ACT Now - Why the Communal and Targeted Violence Bill needs to be
    codified into law, Teesta Setalvad, Communalism Combat, November 2011     

 

   The Prevention of Communal Violence (Justice and Reparation for Victims)
     Bill, 2011, Draft Submitted to the National Advisory Council, February 8, 2011

     (Drafting Committee Members  SDJM Prasad, PI Jose, Teesta Setalvad)

   Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and
     Reparations) Bill, 2011 & Explanatory Note


   DAMINING VERDICT, Report of the Justice BN Srikrishna Commission
     appointed for Inquiry into the Riots at Mumbai during December 1992
     January 1993 and the March 12, 1993 Bomb Blasts, Memorandum of Action
     Taken by the Government, Extracts from the Justice DP Madon Commission
     report on the Bhiwandi, Jalgaon and Mahad riots in May 1970, published by
     SabrangCommunications &Publishing Private Limited, 1998 

   Who’s Afraid of the Commission’s Report, Publisher’s Note

   Introduction, Myths Shattered, Teesta Setalvad