The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma cover image

Ep. 124: Religion and Ideology in Indian Society

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

00:00

Ayodhya the Dark Knight

Religion or at least the excuse of religion has become a big part of politics. The Ayodhya issue festers from then on until the current year is very interesting because when you realize that a lot of the congress were in a sense sympathetic towards these forces including Lalbhadu Shastri who was home minister of UP despite Nehru's furious missives to all of these people saying do something this can't go on solve this issue and none of them really bothered. But one interesting thing is that this such kind of continuity of these issues right for example we talked earlier about Karapatrimaraj he he was instrumental he started the Ram Raja Prashe and all which

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app