Word: subcontinentals
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Over the past year we've been painfully reminded that the clash of cultures can be horrific. Hindus and Muslims slaughtering one another on the subcontinent. Jews and Palestinians locked in a death grip on the Levant. Extremist Muslims declaring jihad on America and destroying cherished symbols of that country...
The truly frightening thing is that it's not just fanatics taking part in the anti-Muslim pogrom. Murder has gone middle class: businessmen are killing businessmen, farmers are fighting farmers, mothers are urging mobs to attack neighbors' children. Across the country, in the cities and out in the villages...
All of these promotional tools are highly inaccurate and paint a skewed picture of Desirable Daughters. This is not a spicy bit of the subcontinent to be consumed at leisure and washed down with a Kingfisher. It is a story both of cultural acclimatization and assimilation and of the once...
In the 16th century, the fiery invader Babur swooped down from present-day Afghanistan to begin his conquest of Hindu India, which started three centuries of foreign rule known as the Mogul period. In 1528, one of his noblemen built a mosque in Ayodhya. History suggests the Muslim invaders dismantled...
In 1946 the Muslim League government in Calcutta, and the rest of the party across the undivided subcontinent, found the "evidence" it needed for its two-nations theory in the riots it inspired in Calcutta. In 1984 the Congress Party more or less condoned with a shrug the massacre of...