Politics & Practical Theology • 72 min
Hindutva and Anti-Muslim Violence: How to Navigate Hindu Supremacy
The Glorious Pages from Your Chronicles October 1947 was a bleak time for South Asia. One month before, Partition had carved out the new states of India and Pakistan (along with what would later become Bangladesh), and in turn also cleaved through the subcontinent’s centuries-old Muslim population. Some chose to leave for the newly created state of Pakistan, where, unlike in India, Muslims would be a majority. Others were forced to uproot their lives and flee as intercommunal violence between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs exploded across the subcontinent, burning properties to ash and sending trains across the border filled with […]
