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Tarushi Aswani

2002 pogrom still haunts Muslim freedom fighter’s family in India

Deen Mohammed, right, with his family at their home in Mudeti village in India's Gujarat state [Tarushi Aswani/Al Jazeera]

Mudeti (Gujarat), India – Tucked away in a corner of Mudeti, a village 124km (77 miles) from Gujarat state’s main city of Ahmedabad in western India, lies a mazaar (shrine) of Shah Beg Makrani, a Muslim freedom fighter revered in the region.

In 1857, a rebellion against the British rule spread across the Indian subcontinent, with many mutineers pledging allegiance to either their regional kings or the crumbling Mughal throne.

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