1.   Demonstrators also pressed the nationalist campaign for a temple on the site of a mosque demolished by a Hindu mob in December.

2.   A few years back, BJP leaders provoked a Hindu mob into smashing the ancient Muslim shrine at Ayodhya, igniting sectarian riots that killed thousands.

3.   According to police reports, local leaders of the VHP incited Hindu mobs to attack Muslim houses and businesses, slaughtering hundreds of people.

4.   Hindu mobs then went on a rampage.

5.   In its more vengeful form, it has led Hindu mobs on bloody rampages through Muslim communities.

6.   In the reprisals that followed, Hindu mobs torched and looted Muslim homes and businesses across the state.

7.   Later, there was widespread revulsion when a Hindu mob razed the shrine, setting off Hindu-Muslim riots across India in which thousands died.

8.   Modi has been accused of negligence for failing to halt retaliatory attacks on Muslims by Hindu mobs after Muslims attacked a trainload of Hindu activists.

9.   Several hundred Muslims died in February and March in pogroms by Hindu mobs in Gujarat, a western state.

10.   The next day Hindu mobs took to the streets here with pistols, knives and cans of kerosene.