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Raise a Glass to Malbec! Malbec World Day, April 17 | SaltWire #reels #shorts #wine #foodExtreme nationalism always looks foolish or even deranged to those who have not caught the virus, but in India, it’s now official.
“Sita cannot stay with the Mughal emperor Akbar,” the petitioners demanded. “Such an act amounts to blasphemy and is a direct assault on the religious belief of all Hindus.” Hindus were already in the ascendant under British rule, because they were ready to collaborate with the new conquerors – and even that ended 77 years ago.‘Hindutva’, the aggressive modern version of Hindu nationalism, is largely a contemporary ideology created for political purposes, but it currently dominates the Indian political scene.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi displays a copy of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's election manifesto for the general election, in New Delhi, India, April 14, 2024. - Reuters Hindutva is all-powerful in the ‘Hindi belt’ of northern India, but first-language Hindi speakers are only 40 per cent of the population. Southern and eastern India speak other languages and have different preoccupations.The BJP is dominated by upper-caste Hindus who have convinced a great many other Hindus that they are all in the same boat, but they are not.
No such census had been published in India since the 1930s. However, Bihar, an opposition-governed state, finally did one and revealed late last year that more than two-thirds of its 130 million people belong to ‘backward’ or marginalized castes.
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