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New York Times reporting on India- on prime minister Manmohan Singh, on opposition leader Narendra Modi, on race and religion in politics
09/17/2013
The difficulties in covering India by putting black people in the same category as Muslim minority in India, its an easy analogy to present to minorities and whites in the U.S. conscious of race riots and civil rights, but very misleading. Muslims in India maybe 14% of the population but looked at South Asian region they are a significant part of the population, beyond the period following partion into India and Pakistan in 1947 to today, a period of 66 years compared to eight centuries of living side by side with many Muslim rulers and dynasties during some periods and in some regions. During the British period from the 18th century to 1947 Muslims did poorly as science and technological progress left poorer Muslims and lower Hindu castes behind. Tiny minority communties such as the Parsees ( the Tata Group) did extremely well. Receptivity to western education and science, and the English language was a key factor for progress. India's constitution made great efforts under Gandhi and Nehru to provide equal rights to minorities and lower castes. In the process Nehru's party, the Indian National Congress took up the cause of Muslims. Yet in the period that followed for six decades the Congress party was not able to make large improvements for the Muslim communities in large northern states such as Uttar Pradesh. It has come under criticism for using the Muslim communities as a voting bloc, but stuck in underdevelopment without action from Congress to make large improvements. The Bharatiya Janata Party first made it to power under the leadership of prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. Under Vajpayee the government maintained peaceful race relations. He was critical of Modi's failure to take strong action to stop race riots in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. At the same time, as reported in the WSJ, India's Supreme Court has cleared the Gujarat chief minister, and the BJP nominee for the general elections, of supporting the riots. The Muslim community in India and in South Asia is too important a part of the region, with its
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