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...pair's greatest conflict occurred in 1932 when, thanks to Ambedkar's lobbying, the British agreed to grant communal electorates to untouchables separate from the Hindus. Gandhi went on a fast in a Pune prison opposing that decision, which he saw as a division of Hindu voters. But Ambedkar bargained hard, and the Mahatma agreed to a historic compromise?instead of separate electorates, a specified number of seats in provincial and national legislative bodies were reserved exclusively for untouchables, a reservation system that is still used in India to ensure a voice for untouchables in India's parliament...
INDIA Baisakhi Day on April 3 has special significance for Hindus and Sikhs. Across the country Hindus host huge community feasts that feature singing and dancing. Crowds flock to temples and to holy rivers like the Ganges for ritual dips. The day is also the anniversary of the founding of the Sikh brotherhood and a time to celebrate the harvest with wild Bhangra dancing. To an ever-changing beat, the strenuous dance portrays life in the fields, moving from plowing to sowing to weeding to reaping. Catch the festivities in any Punjabi village...
...Vajpayee can probably swing public opinion behind his Kashmir initiative. Not only is he popular, but his Bharatiya Janata Party is the party of the Hindu right. If anyone has the credibility to sell Indian Hindus a compromise with both Muslim Pakistan and the predominantly Muslim Kashmiris, it is Vajpayee...
...into violence because of injustices they had faced from India. But those boys are now gone: surrendered, jailed or killed, or fled to Pakistan. Now the war is being managed by mysterious mehmans, or guests from distant and violent places, determined to wrench Muslim land from the hold of Hindus. They call this a religious war. A jihad...
...milestone; we've already had one millennium celebration in the last XII months, and no amount of persuasion will convince the populace that the calendar started in the Year I, not the Year...well, not the year before that. [This was before zeros, at least in Europe anyway. The Hindus, Arabs and Mayans had zeros, but it didn't seem to do them much good...