Ramachandra Guha on the Crisis in the World’s Largest Democracy
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The Importance of Love Marriages in Indian Politics
To understand the significance of this religious majoritarianism, it's important to go back and understand the sort of nature of india's founding. The nineteenth century and british colonization provoked two kinds of responses. One was self reflective: Why have we been colonized? Because we haven't adopted modern technology. We've been ossified, conservative, set in our ways. And treated our women badly. A second reaction wold be know we have been colonized because we want organized enough. We want co enough. And we must also reclaim all those who have become christians and moslems preparatory to creating a hindo rastra or a hindo state. That debate
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