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Ep 163: Who Broke Our Republic?

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Is the Hindu Nationalism a Remarkable Accident of History?

The cultural movement that led to Hindu nationalism so to say was not something that really you know began after partition or was driven by the propagandists of the ruses and so on. It was like a history of the Gita press shows it was alive and throbbing even before that. My second observation would be that when we look back at Hindu nationalism I think it might be a mistake just to look at groups like the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabharata because there was a strong strand of Hindu nationalism very different from the Hindu to a nationalism of today which was within the Congress itself. And my question therefore is a dual question. One is that is it a remarkable accident of history

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