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An exercise in adventurism by Girilal Jain

By admin | 16 March, 1993 - 2:57 pm |29 October, 2013 Articles
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The logic behind the change of guard in Srinagar is far from clear. Mr Girish Saxena had done and was doing an excellent job as governor in an extremely difficult situation. Indeed, things were beginning to turn around. Intelligence had clearly improved, enabling secur­ity forces to nab important terrorists. Ordinary … Read More →

Apartheid In Reverse. Dangers Of Minorityism by Girilal Jain

By admin | 11 March, 1993 - 1:00 pm |28 June, 2014 Articles
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THE public discourse not only in India but also in the West is currently dominated by the con­cept of multi-culturalism with the result that it is not recognised that self-conscious minorityism, as in the case of our Muslim coun­trymen, is a form of apartheid in reverse and that its consequences … Read More →

Clouding the mind by Girilal Jain

By admin | 10 March, 1993 - 3:00 pm |29 October, 2013 Articles
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Since I do not follow developments at Aligarh carefully, I have not known of the existence and activities of the New Aligarh Movement and the New Servants of India Society. So my observations relate solely to the ‘document’ they have prepar­ed and circulated on “the grave political and moral crisis … Read More →

Islam & Modern World: The Failure of Sir Sayyid Ahmad : Girilal Jain

By admin | 25 February, 1993 - 10:30 am |10 April, 2013 Articles
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The point that developments in Indian Islam must be viewed in the larger context of the world of Islam cannot be over-emphasized. For central to Muslims in India, as anywhere else, is the ummah, the universal community of believers. This does not mean that Indian Muslims have been at the … Read More →

The bond of community by Girilal Jain

By admin | 24 February, 1993 - 2:53 pm |29 October, 2013 Articles
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To recognise the centrality of the umma (community of believers) for Muslims requires for non-Muslims, especially Hindus, an im­aginative leap not many are able to make. That is one reason why so many Hindu intellectuals find it natural to equate Hindu ‘communalism’ with Muslim communalism. The word ‘communal’ has ac­quired … Read More →

The nation of faith by Girilal Jain

By admin | 23 February, 1993 - 2:50 pm |29 October, 2013 Articles
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Since my personal in­teraction with educated Muslims is rather limit­ed, I am not in a good enough position to as­sess their response to develop­ments after the demolition of the Babri structure in Ayodhya on December 6last. But certain points emerge fairly clearly from what some of them are writing and … Read More →

Dead Ideas: Girilal Jain

By admin | 19 February, 1993 - 3:04 am |1 July, 2014 Articles
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If the “new world order” of the flighty imagination of Mr Bush was a non-starter, his concept of “collective security” outside of well-defined alliance systems may also be consigned to the dust-bin. Indeed, the irony of it all is that the bloated rhetoric of both the “new world order” and … Read More →

Towards a nation-state by Girilal Jain

By admin | 16 February, 1993 - 2:51 pm |29 October, 2013 Articles
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Even Caldwell, father of the theory of a dis­tinct Tamil language, did not speak of a separate Tamil people in ethnic terms. It requires mod­ern Indian ‘intellectuals’ to invent such a people. It is infuriating. And, it cannot be helped. That is stuff which our public dis­course is made of. … Read More →

Response To The West. Hindu-Muslim Divergence In India by Girilal Jain

By admin | 11 February, 1993 - 1:14 pm |28 June, 2014 Articles
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In no discussion on the Hindu-Muslim problem have I seen Haji Shariatullah and Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi juxtaposed against Raja Rammohun Roy, though nothing else can help illuminate it better than such a juxtaposition. The Raja is well known as founder of the Brahmo Samaj and is ap­propriately regarded as father … Read More →

Tracing the divide by Girilal Jain

By admin | 9 February, 1993 - 2:48 pm |29 October, 2013 Articles
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The dual process of modernization and self-renewal among Hindus did not falter in the 19th century. The mu­tiny in 1857, with the last Mughal ‘emperor’ Bahadur Shah Zafar as the nominal head, made no difference to it. Hindus, on the one hand, took enthusiastically to Western education through the English … Read More →

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