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Great events in india have been shaped by the politics of the lynch mob. The last and decisive impetus to the great divide between Hindus and Muslims, which in turn led to the bitter harvest of partition in 1947, was provided by the Muslim mobs of Calcutta who ravaged the city in 1946. In 1984, Sikhs were identified, torched and killed by sword and bullet after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. In 1992 the destruction of a mosque on a disputed spot in the holy city of Ayodhya, where the Himalayas begin to meet the plains, was followed by wanton...
...Each time, the government of the day gave implicit help to the lynch mobs by providing breathing space for hatred. Despite sufficient evidence of the coming firestorm, the police were kept immobile before and mute during the public assault, mayhem and murder. The guardians of the law handed selected areas for an average of two days to the lawless of their preference, while some group of Indians paid an indescribable price in blood. For these mass lynchings have an almost celebratory air. Mobs roam the street as if on some gruesome holiday during which they have been released from...
...keep contradictions under control was strained with the call given by sadhus and zealots to start construction of a temple at the disputed site this month; it snapped when Muslim fanatics attacked a train in Godhra, Gujarat, and killed Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya. In its first test of lynch-mob politics, the government of Vajpayee in New Delhi failed, while the BJP administration in Gujarat could barely conceal its support for those mobs. Paradoxically, Muslim fundamentalists, like the hectoring, acid-tongued Syed Shahabuddin, created a platform for the Hindu resurgence in the 1980s with their virulent and purposeless rhetoric...
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