A perceptive piece by Varghese K George - takes apart the development model of the BJP ... the BJP’s offer of development for Jammu and Kashmir is not an apolitical process. Mr. Modi has cited the industrial growth of Kutch, a Gujarat district with a high Muslim population, as proof of his ability to make development an ethnicity-neutral process. But BJP leaders are speaking not only of a Hindu Chief Minister for the State, but also of ‘Indianisation’ and ‘integration’ which have threatened the Kashmiris, as the Sangh Parivar has used these terms as codes of homogenisation. At any rate, the ‘Gujarat model’ and its Kutch variant require the Muslims to surrender their political aspirations in exchange of ‘development.’
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:57:06 +0000
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