Impasse in India - The New York Review of Books, June 28, 2007
August 27, 2007 7:32 am Gujarat Riots, Hindu nationalismImpasse in India - The New York Review of Books, June 28, 2007
Until 2004 the central government as well as many state governments in India were, as the philosopher Martha Nussbaum puts it in her new book,
increasingly controlled by right-wing Hindu extremists who condone and in some cases actively support violence against minorities, especially the Muslim minority. Many seek fundamental changes in India’s pluralistic democracy.