The results must be encouraging.
God is great.
Even after exit polls declaring a BJP win in Madhya Pradesh were aired, chief minister Digvijay Singh appeared genuinely unperturbed. A picture of self-assurance, he maintained, as he had throughout the campaign, that he would form the government. A
A new generation of historians are bringing the subject out of the shadow of Marx and Nehru, fulfilling its role of restoring civilisational pride among Indians.
The BJP, with its insistence on the purity of Hindu Rashtra, would sadly reduce the soaring generosity of their founding vision to the petty bigotry of majoritarian chauvinism.
Historiography under previous governments can, and should, be contested. But history that’s being rewritten under the present government is not merely to eulogise some leaders, but also, and more worryingly, to condemn several chapters of the past.
The results must be encouraging.
God is great.