Modernity-by-diktat isn’t going to work

If drawing room conversations of the past are any indication, I would hazard the guess that the Allahabad High Court’s stay on caste-based rallies is certain to be widely welcomed by India’s metropolitan elite. Ever since misgovernance and corruption were identified as the root causes of India’s inability to live up to its potential, the non-voting classes have been inclined to blame the ills of Indian democracy on caste-based politics. Ashis Nandy actually said that in so many words in this year’s Jaipur Literary Festival, and it got him into a spot of bother with the law.

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