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The rise and fall of the BJP; in little more than 20 years, the Hindu right had gone from being on the fringe of Indian politics to one of the nation's most powerful parties. How were they finally defeated?(Cover)
Human rights activist Teesta Setalvad counts May 13, 2004 as one of the happiest days of her life. It was the day that the Indian National Congress scored a resounding victory in the Parliamentary elections, defeating the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its governing coalition.
The revival of the Congress party is the comeback story of the decade. The BJP's rapid ascendancy throughout the 1990s, with its politics of Hindu supremacy had caught India's progressives unaware. From the demolition of the Babri Mosque by Hindu mobs in 1992 to organized attacks on Christian missionaries and the Muslim community--the growth of the BJP had been accompanied by ...
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