 In 2020, a series of riots in North East Delhi in which Hindu nationalist mobs attacked Muslims and vandalized Muslim properties and mosques was widely described as a pogrom.During the riots, 53 people were killed and more than 350 were injured.According to Encyclopædia Britannica, "the term is usually applied to attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, [and] the first extensive pogroms followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881", and the "Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789" states that pogroms "were antisemitic disturbances that periodically occurred within the tsarist empire."