First Things RSS Feed - Myron Weiner https://www.firstthings.com/author/myron-weiner en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:51 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/myron-weiner 60 Hindu Nationalism, Indian Democracy https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/06/hindu-nationalism-indian-democracy https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/06/hindu-nationalism-indian-democracy Mon, 01 Jun 1992 00:00:00 -0400 India’s post-independence generation of leaders sought to keep religion at arm’s length from politics, regarding religion as a disruptive force. It was, after all, conflict between Hindus and Muslims that had led to massive violence and to the partition of India. These leaders wanted India—unlike Pakistan whose leaders declared their country to be an Islamic state—to be a secular state in which all religions were to be given equal place.

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