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Notes

1. India, a British colony since 1757, won independence on August 15, 1947. The end of two hundred years of colonial rule was accompanied by dividing the heavily Hindu and Muslim populated regions into India and Pakistan in the northwest and east. This was the effect of British divide-and-rule policies; but in 1971 East Pakistan declared its war of independence and subsequently established itself as Bangladesh. [return to page 1 of essay]

2. There is a credible argument that Hindutva leaders’ mobilization against Babri Masjid was a diversion to contain the political momentum the lower caste was gaining in the 1980s. The upper-lower caste wedge among Hindus came to a head in 1990 when the Mandal Commission recommended strengthening affirmative action, resulting in the eruption of violent protests.

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