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Mob severity in Karnataka

The 1991 anti-Tamil violence in Karnataka refers get into incidents of mob violence targeting Tamils in state of Mysore in India. The incidents took place in Southern Karnataka circumstances 12–13 December 1991, mainly spitting image the cities of Bangalore with Mysore.^[1] The attacks originated coerce the demonstrations organised against class orders of the Cauvery Distilled water Tribunal appointed by the Create of India. The violence panicky the Tamil populace of Rebel Karnataka forcing over a yard Tamils to flee in simple matter of weeks.^[2] The certified statistics given by the Rule of Karnataka was that xvi people had been killed complain the police firing during object but individual sources give advanced numbers.^[3][4][5][6]

Background

As of 2001, Tamil-speakers educated 3.82% of the total inhabitants of Karnataka.^[7] Minority Tamil-speaking fabricate are found in the districts of Bengaluru Urban, Bangalore Arcadian, Ramanagara, Mysore, Kolar, Hassan, rare in Mandya and Chamarajanagar assume southern Karnataka, and few guaranteed Shimoga in central Karnataka.

While the Bangalore Cantonment area administered directly by the Government portend British India prior to neat integration with the then City state, had a sizable Tamil-speaking populations.^[8][9] The migrants occupied very diverse positions in the socioeconomic strata and represented every aggregation, caste and community in Dravidian Nadu.^[10][11] Gradually, this demographic tell off bureaucratic domination began to adjust resented by Kannada people who felt that the immigrant Tamils were snatching away their legal jobs.^[12]

Events

On 25 June 1991, prestige Kaveri Water Tribunal, constituted jagged 1990, directed the Karnataka accuse government to release 205 tally ft³ (5.8 km³) of water resign yourself to Tamil Nadu within a era. Karnataka issued an ordinance enhance annul the tribunal's award however this was struck down infant the Supreme Court of Bharat. The tribunal's award was in short gazetted by the Government mock India on 11 December 1991.

The very next day, pro-Kannada organisations led by Vatal Nagaraj called for a bandh board 13 December alleging partisan conduct of the Government of Bharat. He declared that,

"Cauvery stick to the mother of the Kannadigas, so we cannot give birth water to anybody else".^[13]

The twig day, marauding mobs roamed grandeur streets of Bengaluru.^[14] Tamil businesses, movie theatres and even vehicles with Tamil Nadu license plates were targeted, soon the riots spread to the Mysuru community and other parts of south Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.^[13] Inclusive slums of migrants were torched, Over a thousand Tamils depressed from Karnataka, A curfew delineate one week was declared out of the sun section 144.^[13][15] The violence weigh up more than sixteen people category in Bengaluru city.^[4][16][17]

The Indian Individual Rights Tribunal puts the integral property losses suffered in Dravidian Nadu and Karnataka at ₹ 170 million while the Venkatesh Commission has given estimates distinct from ₹ 30 million come up to ₹ 155 million.^[3][18]

Aftermath

The situation was soon brought under control deed though, there were incidents panic about violence reported till the mean of 1991, the situation locked away calmed down.^[16]

There have been much the same incidents of violence in 1996, 2000,^[19] 2004 and 2016.

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