![]() ![]() India’s first postindependence government was marked by Jawaharlal Nehru’s admirable determination, in the face of the violence accompanying the partition of India and Pakistan, to establish India as “a democratic secular State where all citizens enjoy full rights and are equally entitled to the protection of the State, irrespective of the religion to which they belong.” Nehru, highly regarded for his statesmanlike and reasonable views, did not want partition in the first place it came about, Guha suggests, for several reasons, not least a long tendency for India’s Hindu majority to underestimate the nation’s massive Muslim population. But, writes essayist Guha, the question is, what sort of democracy? ![]() India is indeed the world’s largest democracy. ![]()
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