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Many years back I read a book on China by the historian W J F Jenner, The Tyranny of History: The Roots of China’s Crisis, where he describes one of the basic tenets of Chinese civilization as “that uniformity is inherently desirable, that there should be one empire, one culture, one script, one tradition”.
My reading of Indian history has always convinced me that this is where lies a basic difference in the historical legacy of Chinese and Indian civilizations. India celebrates diversity, in spite of all the messiness that it entails. The RSS/BJP leadership is in some basic denial of
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