Dec 20, 2021:
Today, day 1 of his fast, day 665 of our chain, Christian Frankenberg posts:
Day 1 of my fast, day 665 of our chain.
A reminder for those who don’t understand what the purpose of this chain is:
“With some notable exceptions, books about Modi and his government have tended toward hagiography. Jaffrelot, a noted scholar of contemporary Indian politics, departs from these accounts. In the process, he argues that unless current trends are checked, India may become an ethnic democracy—a majoritarian state with scant regard for the rights of religious minorities, especially Muslims.”
The book discussed in Foreign Policy:
Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy, Christophe Jaffrelot, Princeton University Press, August 2021.
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