this essay was written 26 years ago, in the aftermath of the 1984
carnage of Sikhs in New Delhi. It was my first attempt at arguing that
communalism was India’s version of Nazism, and that it was a singular
phenomenon with different religious (and mutually influential)
expressions, rather than an arithmetic total of separately existing
communalisms. The essay was published in several places, including
Social Science Probings and the newspaper Patriot. It last appeared in
Mainstream, and was posted on SACW
till recently, when I withdrew it in order to make typographical
corrections. Some errors and/or insufficient details may remain in the
main text as well as in the footnotes - I will try and remove them over
time.
http://www.sacw.net/article2760.html
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