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Article: The struggle for India's soul.(Hindu-Muslim relations, Gujarat)
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- World Policy Journal
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- September 22, 2002
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I will not buy anything from any Muslim shopkeeper
I will not use those traitors' hotels or their garages
Boycott movies casting Muslim heroes heroines
Never work in Muslims' offices and do not employ Muslims
Pledge distributed in Gujarat by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (1)
My immigrant Gujarati father is both a liberal Democrat and a supporter of Hindu fascism. This is not as unusual as one might think. According to one of the central tenets of the Hindu far-right ideology known as Hindutva, India is not only the fatherland, pitribhumi, of Hindus, Jains and-more problematically--Sikhs, it is also their punyabhumi, their holy ...