Modi’s project to make a Hindu India won’t strengthen the country
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Ramesh Thakur is emeritus professor at the Australian National University and a former United Nations assistant secretary-generalA woman shouts slogans from inside a bus after being detained during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act earlier this month.Some of the most ardent nationalist leaders do some of the gravest damage to the countries they imagine – and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi threatens to become the latest to make the tragic mistake.
India represents the most successful example in history of managing the challenge of unity in diversity through a dynamic formula of power sharing and accommodation. This success lies in the three core features of the country’s constitutional structure: democracy, federalism and secularism.In a country that is 80-per-cent Hindu, at one time, the president, A.P.J.
Muslims now constitute a 180-million strong minority in India. If they become disaffected through state-sponsored policies of exclusion, the country would descend into bloodbath and break apart.Muslims and other minorities had begun to feel besieged by the Hindutva agenda – a majoritarian project by hard-line Hindus to transform India into a – in Mr. Modi’s first term. But not wanting to provoke untoward incidents in an increasingly febrile atmosphere, they mostly kept their silence.
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