Engineer, Asghar Ali creator text xu| 1998 continuing ng p.3300-304 This year while the minor riots, involving Hindus and Muslims, took few lives, there is clearly a change in the nature of the communal situation in most states. The consistent attack on Christian minorities and their places of worship in Gujarat and the reaction of the state's BJP government is a case in point. - Reproduced Violence Communalism Economic and Political Weekly 180718