Compensation paid by the government to riot victims for these major riots:

List of major anti-Muslim riots:

1961: October: Aligarh
1962: Jabalpur (MP)
1964: Bhivandi(Maharashtra)
1967: Ranchi(Bihar)
1969: Ahmedabad (Gujarat)

1970: Bhiwandi, Jalgaon, Malad (Maharashtra)
1971: Aligarh
1978: October : Aligarh
1978-1980: Jamshedpur (Bihar), Varanasi (UP)

1980: Moradabad (UP)
1981: Meenakshipuram, Biharsharif, May-June: Aligarh.
1982: Meerut(UP)
1983: Nellie (Assam), 2191 people killed.
"The six-hour carnage in Nellie claimed 3,300 innocent lives."
"The Muslim immigrants of Nellie were attacked by the Tiwa ribals on February 18."
"Even after 24 years, the government has not made publice the T. D. Tewari Commission report of 1994. All the relatives of the Nellie victims received was a paltry Rs. 5,000 each. The survivors were compensated with Rs. 2,000..."
"The records at the Jagir Road police station show that 688 cases were filed agains the murderers. But only 310 were charge sheeted. The remaining 378 cases were closed because of lack of evidence." [India Today, 13 Aug 2007]

1983: Bhatkal (Karnataka)
1986: April: Newada(Bihar): more than 40 killed.
1987: Meerut(UP)
1989: Bhagalpur(Bihar)

Data released by the Ministry of Home shows that prior to Babri Masjid demolition, the percentage of Muslim victims in the riots had been 80%. [MG 1-15 Nov 2005]

1990-91 : Dec.- Jan. : Aligarh
1992-1993: Bombay, Surat, Ahmedabad, Kanpur, Delhi and rest of the India

1997: Coimbatore

2000: Report by Asghar Ali Engineer
2001: Kanpur, Malegaon
Report by Asghar Ali Engineer
2002: Gujarat
In the post-Godhra riots of 2002: 254 Hindus and 790 Muslims were killed in Gujarat. A total of 223 persons have been reported missing, 2548 persons sustained injuries, 919 persons were rendered widows and 606 children were orphaned during the riots.
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2003:

711 communal incidents, 193 killed, 2261 injured.

2004: Report by Asghar Ali Engineer

677 communal incidents, 134 killed, 2132 injured

2005: Mau (UP); Report by Saanjhi Duniya, Second Report by Saanjhi Duniya, Report by Subhashini Ali.

779 communal incidents, 124 killed, 2066 injured.

2006: Goa, Vadodra(Gujarat), May: Aligarh(UP)
Communal riots 2006 : Asghar Ali Engineer

698 communal incidents, 133 killed, 3170 injured.

2007:

till first quarter of 2007: 191 communal incidents, 23 killed, 611 injured. [Status paper on Internal Security Situatio by Union Ministry of Home Affairs]

Since 1940, 75 per cent of the causalities - in terms of lives and property destroyed during riots have been of Muslims.
(Source: Riots and its Aftermath by Shashank Shekhar)