The key points to note in this brilliant article by @dharmadispatch in @Openthemag are given in the pictures below. The biggest mystery for me is when you look at 1947 even though a #Nehru could have been sympathetic to the #Muslim cause given the #partition where was the need 
to glorify the invaders, the most brutal barbaric rulers of the Mughal period & make them the heroes & representatives of Indian muslims? For someone who claimed to be secular & fighting for united India the #Nehru ecosystem could have found so many other heroes to represent the
Indian muslims. Accepting the extra sympathy for a community in the aftermath of partition #Nehru & his eco system by promoting barbaric figures as their heroes actually did the greatest disservice to the Indian muslims. Fissiparous elements drove the wedge deeper over time.
Reports have talked about how #IndiraGandhi was concerned about the Hindu psyche & vote when Punjab was created. However much Nehru Indira supported the Muslim community they never antagonised the Hindu community openly with contempt & derision & as #ArunShourie
says the #Hindus were branded as communal. This tendency started post the demise of Rajiv Gandhi though it picked up steam by 1998 when the word #PseudoSecularism was coined. That this was coincident with #SoniaGandhi ascendancy to political power is interesting.
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