PALESTINE ESSAYS

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Political violence, of terrorism, by State as well as non-State actors has a long history in India. The allegation that Indian Muslims indulged in “terrorism” gained currency with the ascent of the Hindutva forces in the mid-1990s and became state ideology with the BJP’s ascent at the Centre. With even the “secular” media taking on the role of stenographers to security agencies, the idea of Muslim terrorists became an accepted fact, so much so that even many Muslims started believing this false propaganda.This book takes a hard look at some of the major incidents attributed to “Islamic terrorism” in India and finds them baseless.