The Reddy Commission of Inquiry's own report acknowledges its recorded figure of more than six hundred and sixty dead as an undercount, since many bodies were never retrieved in a condition allowing identification and some deaths were never formally reported to police; historians' higher estimates of one to two thousand are themselves not built from a systematic recount but from unofficial contemporary reports.
What would resolve this A systematic archival study working from Ahmedabad hospital, mortuary and municipal burial records alongside contemporary press and community accounts, on the model of later Indian communal-violence casualty reconstructions, to produce one reconciled toll for the September 1969 riots.
OpenModern South Asian history; historical demographyMegha Kumar, Communalism and Sexual Violence in India: The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity and Conflict