It's constructing a mythology and presenting it as a history.

It is, in that sense, an explicit act of symbolic and indeed literal violence to turn the immense

heterogeneity of Indian society into a single strand.

And that element of both symbolic violence and literal violence is very pronounced.

So it is absolutely at odds with what are demographic realities, but also this very complex

multi-layered history.

I mean, India's hundreds of languages and hundreds of casts and hundreds of cultures.

So the Hindu nationalists say, what's the only thing that a Hindu from Kerala in the

South has in common with a Hindu from Kashmir in the North?

They don't speak the same language.

They don't even have the same ways of worshipping.

The only thing that they have in common is their faith.

And so Hindu nationalists have sought to unite India's majority Hindus under this identity

of a monolithic Hindu faith.

Fear.

As tensions remain high in Delhi.

The unrest has been centered around Muslim majority neighborhoods.

They're in the northeast of Delhi.

Travel began between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority over the controversial citizens

law brought in by the nationalist government under Prime Minister Modi.

A new law providing citizenship for undocumented migrants as long as they're not Muslim.

We are feeling unsafe.

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