Ramachandra Guha on the Crisis in the World’s Largest Democracy
The Good Fight
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A Brief History of the Hindoo Movement in India
In northern india the areses, which wasfounded in 19 25, had built a country wide cardel of devoted workers. They were modelled on our old style cromedist party, partly modal or litarian sacism but also impressed by the order and discipline of communist catas right now. In the sixties, they are involved in the opposition to the emergency. But their real growth comes in the 19 eighties with a campaign to demolish a mosque and build a temple in the town of auria. Some believe that this is where mythical god king rama, the hero of the hindu apitaramina was born. And around this movement, they really grew
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