Q. Consider the following pairs:
- Laxmanpur massacre – Gujarat
- Dalelchak-Bhagaura massacre – Bihar
- Bathani Tola massacre – Madhya Pradesh
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
Answer:
Only 2
Notes:
- The Laxmanpur Bathe massacre was a massacre conducted in the Laxmanpur Bathe village in Arwal district of Bihar, where 58 scheduled caste people were allegedly killed by members of the Ranvir Sena in retaliation for the Bara massacre in which 37 upper castes were killed.
- Dalelchak-Bhagaura massacre was a caste-based carnage that took place in 1987 in the Aurangabad district of The incident was described by the media as one of biggest massacres in the history of Bihar. During this masacre, nearly 50 members of the Rajput caste were killed.
- The 1996 Bathani Tola massacre was an incident of caste-related violence in which an upper-caste militia killed 21 Dalits, including women and children.