Deconsecrating Ghandi
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India has been seen as a source of virtue, with Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru seen as saints. Partition, the identification of India with Hindu culture, and the explosion of a nuclear bomb can be seen as deviations from the path of sect-blind virtue. Reassessments of the lives of the founding saints, Gandhi and Nehru, are part of a reassessment of Indian history. Gandhi may have had faults, yet he possessed a unique vision. There are also signs that India is not prepared to accept a vision where all is exclused but Hindu culture.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1998
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Old journeys revisited
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The Center for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India, is involved in an oral history of partition, which led to the separation of India and Pakistan. The Ford Foundation offered funds for the project that the Indian government turned down, and a new proposal has been submitted focusing on ways of dealing with partition. Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus all see themselves as victims of the violence of that time. One survivor argues that the times were bad rather than the people involved.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 2000
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Multicultural Akbar
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The Mughals were a dynasty ruling Inda from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and Abar was a great Mughal leader. He developed a religious ideology that was linked to political ends. He developed a meritocracy from a multicultural nobility and called on different religious scholars to debate religious issues, retaining aspects of religion that he saw as appropriate. He developed his own religion which blended aspects of others. Later rulers were not as tolerant as he was.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
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