The major steel towns built in the wake of the Second Five-Year Plan were to be "temples' to India's industrial future and secular "modernity'; but soon they were desecrated by ethnic and communal violence. Focusing on two of them, this article shows that the extent of the violence was markedly different, and asks "why?'.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/desecration-nehrus-temples-bhilai-and-rourkela-compared
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/jonathan-parry
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/christian-struempell
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/economic-and-political-weekly
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/iron-and-steel-industry
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/displacement
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/conflicts
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/political-parties
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/chhattisgarh
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/madhya-pradesh
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/orissa
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rourkela
