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Our Hindu Rashtra review: In new book, Aakar Patel charts India s descent into a majoritarian nation

Our Hindu Rashtra review: In new book, Aakar Patel charts India s descent into a majoritarian nation Firstpost 13-01-2021 Samrat © Provided by Firstpost Our Hindu Rashtra review: In new book, Aakar Patel charts India s descent into a majoritarian nation How did India become the nakedly majoritarian country it is – a Hindu Rashtra in all but name? Aakar Patel’s answer to this question starts, as any such account must, with Partition. It is not the Partition of India in 1947, but that of Bengal in 1905, where he rightly begins his story, for it was during the movement against that first Bengal partition that “Vande Mataram, the Hindu nationalism trope, became popular as the anthem of Indian nationalism”. It was also then that “The Muslim League was formed in 1906 in Dhaka, the capital of the new province of East Bengal and Assam”, he points out, and “Muslims made their first formal demand for political representation as a community”. From the

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