The Hindu Rashtra wasn't built in a day
Aakar Patel’s new book argues that India’s descent into Hindu majoritarianism is not merely a post-2014 phenomenon
The author attempts a critical examination of the foundational texts of the Sangh Parivar.
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08.02.2021 | 07:36 PM IST
As a redoubtable columnist and
commentator, Aakar Patel is known for blunt-speaking. An unsparing
critic of the current regime, his opposition stems not from the
personal, but the ideological. In Our Hindu Rashtra, written in a style
similar to his op-ed columns, Patel builds his case brick-by-brick to
substantiate two primary theses. One, that Hindu majoritarianism never
had positive aspects but was perpetually “negative and aimed at India’s
minorities”. Additionally, Hindutva is not an ideology but merely an
anti-minority (chiefly targeting Muslims and Christians) programme. [ . . . ]
