The Washington Post, December 11th, 1992
HUGE, MIXED, democratic India lives with a level of civic disorder that would sink many other states. But the explosion that took place Sunday, when Hindu extremists destroyed a four-century-old Muslim mosque, has stirred fears that the country is entering its gravest crisis since independence. There was a long run-up to the explosion at Ayodhya, which provoked a reaction there and elsewhere in India and beyond that took hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives. In its wake a country constitutionally devoted to secularism now comes under perhaps unbearable religious and communal strains. It is tem...
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