Gujarat’s anti-Muslim pogrom was largely carried out by Dalit and OBC hands

Evidence

In his essay “Blood Under Saffron: The Myth of Dalit-Muslim Confrontation”, Raju Solanki, a Gujarati Dalit writer who studied the pattern of arrests, says that of the 1,577 ‘Hindus’ who were arrested (not under POTA of course), 747 were Dalits and 797 belonged to ‘Other Backward Classes’. Nineteen were Patels, two were Banias and two were Brahmins. The massacres of Muslims occurred in several cities and villages in Gujarat. However, Solanki points out that not a single massacre took place in bastis where Dalits and Muslims lived together. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 432

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the book’s central thesis that caste weaponizes lower castes against each other and minorities—upper castes orchestrate while Dalits/OBCs do the violent labor.
• ADDENDUM: Supports ‘On Sacrifice’-adjacent themes of how stratified societies mobilize the oppressed as instruments of violence, though it is not literally about sacrifice.