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Aakar Patel: Our Hindu Rashtra (Penguin) 4 stars

Our Hindu Rashtra (transl. "Our Hindu Nation") is a book about Hindu majoritarianism in India …

The chapters about how Hindu majoritarianism aided partition, apartheid of Muslims in Ahmedabad and the occupation of Kashmir are very informative. The chapter on the history of Pakistan is somewhat longwinded. The rest is a summing up of what's been the daily news for about a decade. Aakar Patel is insightful but can be wordy at times.