Abstract
The main argument of this article is that negligence in responsibilities and struggle for power created Hindu-Muslim divide in the city of Peshawar— currently the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a Pakistan’s province and close to the Afghan border—which resulted in communal violence. I have selected two episodes of violence, 1910 and 1947, to argue that how did political interests build our perceptions and violate the very norms of social relationships. To explain, how cordial Hindus and Muslims were with each other, I give an overview of social relationships between two communities since the sixteenth century.
However, negligence on the part of British and the quest for political control widend the gulf between the communities and led to the violence in the city of Peshawar. These episodes of violence deeply affected the discourses of Muslim nationalism and Pashtun nationalism in a sense that “Hindu” is identified as other or not discussed at all.
Noor Rehman, Aman Ullah Khan. (2020) “Maro Hindu Ko” (Kill the Hindus): Communal Violence in Peshawar City: A Historical Perspective, Journal of the Punjab University Historical Society, Volume 33 , Issue 2.
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