"[A]lthough many leaders of the [BJP]... probably do think in private that India is, or must be, a Hindu nation, they no longer dare say so in public. To the alleged ‘minority appeasement’ of the Congress Party they offer an alternative that they call ‘positive secularism’. The term would have been detested by those Hindutva ideologues Savarkar and Golwalkar, for whom secularism was an alien, Western, concept. That some BJP leaders feel compelled now to use it is a tacit acknowledgement of the power of the founding ideas of the Republic."
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 08:27:05 +0000
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