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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

India: A Million Mutinies Now - pg. 445

With his pastoral memories, his dream of Sikh glory, there was also his idea of religious purity. He applied this idea to the affairs of men, and rejected what he found. Like Papu the Jain stock-broker in Bombay, who lived on the edge of the great slum of Dharavi and was tormented by the idea of social upheavel, Gurtej had a vision of chaos about to come. Papu had turned to good works, in the penitential Jain fashion. Gurtej had turned to millenarian politics. It had happened with other religions when they turned fundamentalist; it threatened to bring the chaos Gurtej feared.

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