Hugh Shearer October 1968 when his government banned the historian, Walter Rodney from re-entering the country. On 16 October a series of riots, known as the Rodney Riots broke out, after peaceful protest by students from the University of the West Indies campus at Mona, was suppressed by police; rioting spreading throughout Kingston. Shearer stood by the ban claiming that Rodney was a danger to Jamaica, citing his socialist ties, trips to Cuba and the USSR, as well as his radical Black nationalism. Shearer was generally uncomfortable with notions of pan-Africanism or militant black nationalism. He was also insecure about the stability
Parsee-Muslim riots Parsee-Muslim riots The Parsee-Muslim riots occurred in 1857 in Bombay, and were reprised in 1874 in parts of Gujarat. These marked the beginning of a period of tension in the two communities. The first riot took place over the blurred depiction of the Prophet Mohammed and his appearance in a public print by a Parsee newspaper, "Chitra Gyan Darpan," in October 1851. A second riot took place on February 13, 1874, over an article on the life of the Prophet in a book entitled "Famous Prophets and Communities".. The first Parsee-Muslim riot began on October 17 and lasted for a