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Pankaj Mishra

Among the Believers

Politics
14 February 2005

The Hindu nationalists used the folksy symbols of Hinduism even as they struck deals with big businessmen and multinational corporations. They pointed to various terrorist and Islamic fundamentalist threats to India, and promised to restore the national virility that a “liberal and secular elite” had apparently sapped. More…

Originally published in Issue 2: Happiness

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