The importance of having been pluralist

September 14, 2021 12:29

The ascendancy of majoritarianism in several parts of the world calls into question the historical significance of India's experiment with pluralism.

This broad popularity of majoritarian parties and leaders can be taken to mean that the ideal of representing diversity isn't just a local failure brought about by the success of the Bharatiya Janata Party, it also represents a more general defeat of the idea that nations ought to do better than suffer minorities.

If this is true, it is a world-historical defeat.

Read Mukul Kesavan's column here.

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