Talk:1970 Bhiwandi riots

Source misrepresentation
The following sentence (apart from being crassly ungrammatical) contains some serious source misrepresentation:


 * According to K. Jaishankar during instances of Communal violence, 65 per cent are Muslim and that of those arrested for clearly identifiable crimes during the violence in 1970 21 were Hindu, and 901 were Muslim.
 * (cited to, p. 211)

The problem is that the figure of "65 per cent" cited by Jaishankar is entirely unrelated and irrelevant to Bhiwandi. Jaishankar's article deals with communal violence in a completely different time and place, the city of Coimbatore in the 1990s. Jaishankar's text doesn't make it overtly clear what the intended scope of the "65%" statistics is, but judging from its context it can only refer to the Coimbatore data that forms the basis of his article. He then goes on to compare victimization and arrest figures from Coimbatore with those of some other riots, including Bhiwandi. The corresponding figure he cites for Bhiwandi is 59 Muslim casualties versus 17 Hindus (which would actually amount to 78%). Why these figures are so much lower than those cited to other sources elsewhere in this article, I don't know. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:45, 2 May 2015 (UTC)