Observing that Jawahar Lal Nehru’s “greatest mistake” in Kashmir was not promising a plebiscite but incarceration of Sheikh Abdullah on a “false” charge, Guha said the move was a “blot on Indian democracy”. An authoritative Gandhian biographer Mr.Ramachandra Guha answers the question asked by UPSC in GS 1 Mains 2015.'How different would have been the achievement. Guha said Indian pluralism is fragile as Indian republic is never far away from a communal right. Noting that Indian pluralism is facing one of the its biggest threats today from some chauvinists who remain hellbent on converting a secular India into a “Hindu Pakistan”, Guha said the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan has given rise to competitive Hindu fundamentalism in India. A true nationalist should be a critic of the failures of his government,” he said. An Indian nationalist is someone who cherishes the values of the Constitution. Hatred of Pakistan is important to the hindutva view of the world, but that should not be important to an Indian nationalist. The BJP’s nationalism is a mirror image of Pakistani nationalism. “Indian nationalism is not adversarial like Pakistani nationalism.
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