https://archive.nytimes.com/india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/narendra-modi-defends-his-actions-in-2002-riots/
Shahid Siddiqui, editor of the Urdu-language weekly newspaper Nai Duniya, recently spoke to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in a rare interview.During the hour long conversation, Mr. Modi defended his actions during the 2002 riots in his state that left hundreds dead, discussed the long court battles that followed and asked why Gujarat is being "targeted" by critics.

https://scroll.in/article/662406/some-young-gujaratis-want-to-know-what-really-happened-in-2002
She achieves this goal, much to her father's delight, but her life changes dramatically in late 2002 when her father is accused of leading a mob and raping women during the Gujarat riots

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/06/world/asia/modi-gujarat-riots-timeline.html
UPDATED August 19, 2015. For more than a decade, Indians have asked whether Narendra Modi, India's new prime minister, could have slowed or stopped the bloody 2002 riots in Gujarat. Muslims make

https://www.siasat.com/twenty-years-on-revisiting-the-2002-gujarat-pogrom-2283752/
Hyderabad: It has been twenty years since the Gujarat pogrom took place that was sparked by the burning of a train on February 27, 2002. The attempt today, is to revisit the horrors and make sense of it from people who were present at the time. This becomes all the more important considering that the riots of 2002 made Narendra Modi, the

https://www.thequint.com/explainers/gujarat-riots-2002-godhra-sabarmati-express-fire-explained
Snapshot. On 27 February 2002, the Sabaramati Express was running about three-and-half-hours late. Finally, at 7:42 am it rolled out of the Godhra station, and barely a kilometre into its final

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/2002-gujarat-riots-20-years-on-wounds-remain-fresh-101645987291256.html
The student was one of hundreds who have graduated from Giteli's school, which she started in the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat riots, one of the worst communal clashes in India that left at

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/revisited/20240607-two-decades-on-india-still-haunted-by-gujarat-religious-riots
Twenty-two years ago, the Indian state of Gujarat erupted in violence. For several weeks from the end of February 2002, inter-communal violence led to the deaths of around 2,000 people, most of

https://www.siasat.com/gujarat-riots-2002-lessons-to-learn-2285030/
Riots erupted in towns and areas were Muslims were prosperous and ran some industries. Gujarat riots 2002 were perhaps the only one, in this long and unending series, in which the state government, then headed by Mr Narendra Modi, was directly involved. In fact, it used a tragic fire in a train coach to blame the Muslims of Godhra town to have

https://indianexpress.com/article/what-is/what-is-godhra-case-gujarat-riots-sabarmati-express-narendra-modi-4881537/
The Gujarat High Court on Monday commuted the death sentence awarded to 11 convicts to life term in the Godhra train burning case of 2002. The court, has, however, upheld the life sentence awarded to 20 others by the special SIT court. The court's verdict came on appeals filed by the convicts and the prosecuting agency.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/5/5/why-2002-gujarat-riots-still-matter
But every politician has an Achilles' Heel, and Modi's is the Gujarat riots. In February 2002, four months after he first became the state's chief minister, bloody communal clashes erupted.

https://thewire.in/communalism/why-gujarat-2002-is-so-easy-to-forget
After the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat, Modi's image builders milked the occasion to anoint him as the strongman saviour that India's majority religion needed to put Muslims in their place.

https://thewire.in/communalism/how-gujarat-2002-turned-india-into-a-nation-of-pathological-liars
Gujarat in 2002 was already living in the post-truth era, much before the world started using this term. And Gujarat then was a sign of what India, as a whole, was to become.

https://www.npr.org/2013/12/01/247946506/in-gujarat-anti-muslim-legacy-of-2002-riots-still-looms
Many hold Modi responsible for one of the worst episodes of religious violence in India's recent history — riots in the state of Gujarat in 2002, which left more than a thousand Muslims dead

https://www.geo.tv/latest/434077-state-govt-releases-eleven-convicts-of-2002-gujarat-riots
The 11 men serving life imprisonment in Gujarat's Godhra Town, particularly in relation to the Bilkis Bano gang rape case, were released on Monday. A remission application was submitted by the

https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2022-03-02/gujarat-2002-mass-killings-launched-modis-rise
Hindu nationalist "rioters" in Gujarat, 2002 Twenty years ago, from the end of February 2002, the Indian state of Gujarat saw horrific, arguably genocidal, violence against Muslims, with its government implicated in the pogroms. Gujarat's chief minister then was Narendra Modi, now the prime minister of India. The 2002 events were linked to a chain of sectarian conflicts in the state

https://www.thequint.com/news/india/2002-gujarat-riots-naroda-gam-massacre-ahmedabad-court-verdict-eyewitness-account
A ceiling covered in black soot, an old trunk, some broken photo frames, old clothes, and a cracked window pane — as Imtiaz Qureshi, a survivor of the 2002 Gujarat riots, stared at these things

https://archive.nytimes.com/india.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/30/with-election-many-reminded-of-horrors-of-2002-gujarat-riots/
The former residents of a Muslim enclave that was attacked and razed by a Hindu mob in 2002 are warning voters that what happened to them could happen to anyone. ... With Election, Many Reminded of Horrors of 2002 Gujarat Riots. By Mansi Choksi April 30, 2014 5:17 am April 30,

https://archive.siasat.com/news/2002-gujarat-riot-victims-rehabilitation-woes-continue-1902072/
The woe of the victim families of the Gujarat riots of 2002 continues unabated. Even 18 years after that horrendous communal program the victims are living in utter neglect. Two lakh people displaced in Gujarat riots. Close to two lakh people were displaced in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1204640/india-court-acquits-14-2002-gujarat-riots-massacre
India court convicts 24 over 2002 Gujarat riots massacre "Out of the 14 acquitted, the bench granted benefit of doubt to 11, while it said it did not find evidence against three others," said

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/2002-gujarat-riots-killing-of-24-in-anand-probably-due-to-a-misunderstanding-6163361/
The killing of 24 people in Ode village of Anand district on March 1, 2002, was probably due to a "misunderstanding", states the Nanavati Mehta Commission report on the 2002 Gujarat riots. In its volume on Central Gujarat, which includes the districts of Anand, Kheda, Panchmahal and Dahod, the Commission states, "…the serious incident

https://www.adda247.com/upsc-exam/gujrat-riots-2002/
Gujrat Riots 2002: Buildup. On the morning of February 27, 2002, a coach of the Sabarmati Express — Coach S6 was set ablaze and 59 passengers traveling in that coach were charred to death. Sabarmati Express was returning from - Ram Janmabhoomi. The train had arrived at Godhra station in Gujarat just then. The victims included 27 women and

https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/51u443/what_exactly_happened_during_the_2002_gujarat/
Gujarat voted him for 3 times after that. Gujarat public has showen that they don't believe what the Modi-Haters are saying and the Gujarat people (and the rest of india) have shown that they **approve ** of Modi. After 2002, Modi won in 2002 elections (even when the riots were fresh), 2007 elections, 2012 elections, and finally the 2014 elections.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/rtlaav/what_really_happened_in_the_so_called_gujarat/
Hello Historians of Reddit, an Indian here. I was born in the early 2000s. And I always hear from adults that 2002 was a pretty bad year, there were riots and stuff in the north western state of Gujarat. But I don't really trust Wikipedia in that matter. I would like to get a clear picture of what exactly happened in these riots ?