Who gains by holding back Ram Guha?

Either the BJP does not care or else the forces of Hindutva can no longer control what they have unleashed

You may have read the news about historian Ramachandra Guha a few days ago. His teaching stint next year in Ahmedabad has been called off after threats from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). Before setting off I should declare an interest here on both sides. Mr Guha is a friend and a couple of years ago the ABVP filed a case against my organisation for sedition (which the police investigated and dropped, having found no evidence).

Anyway, the BBC reported the story under the headline “Ramachandra Guha: How the right wing hounded out a Gandhi biographer”.

To me, there are two