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Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3, Special Issue: "The Eurasian Context of the Early Modern History of Mainland South East Asia, 1400-1800". (Jul., 1997), pp. 735-762.
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Now that the dust has settled over the Gujarat elections, we can afford to defy the pundits and admit that, even if Narendra Modi had lost the last elections, it would not have made much difference to the culture of Gujarat politics. Modi had already done his job. Most of the state’s urban middle class would have remained mired in its inane versions of communalism and parochialism and the VHP and the Bajrang Dal would have continued to set the tone of state politics. Forty years of dedicated propaganda does pay dividends, electorally and socially.

It’s a dramatisation about a British bengali girl who goes to Bangladesh on holiday and is auctioned and forced into marriage by her father and uncle ... .

Most Indians believe today that Kashmir is no longer a problem.
In the imagery of our Press, the back of militancy (a beast) is
broken, Pakistan (an unnatural excrescence) is cut to size, and the
US (the only bully in town) is with us. This view celebrates political
realism of a particularly cynical variety, but then that is not new:
even otherwise sensitive Indians have generally had a cynical way
of looking at Kashmir: that it is a game of power that abides no
principles. The only difference is that Indian cynicism on Kashmir
has now found a matching international ambience. But most Indians
would not find it funny let alone true to be told that we have the Al
Qaeda to thank for this.
This cynicism makes the task of the Indian State that much more
easy in Kashmir, for the vigilant public opinion that it has to contend
with – or so we fondly think - in other matters is absent here, excepting
Kashmiri public opinion, which the very cooperative Indian media –
the exceptions are very few - will not take beyond the Banihal pass.
This convenience for India’s establishment has many victims,
from abstract things like justice to concrete things such as human
lives. But its direct victims are the people of Kashmir - their liberty,
their lives and their dignity.

This poster throws light on the secular fabric of the Constitution of India. Besides shattering myths about minority communities it educates us on the Freedom Of Religion as guaranteed under Article 25 of the Constitution, various Acts such as The Places Of Worship (Special Provisions) Act Of 1991, relevant sections of the Indian Penal code and the word of the Constitution among other things for religious and educational institutions and on offences against religion. It is a useful resource (…)