On the Desecration of Nehru's Temples': Bhilai and Rourkela Compared
Submitted by susan on Sat, 2008-05-10 17:21
The major steel towns built in the wake of the Second Five-Year Plan were to be "temples' to India's industrial future and secular "modernity'; but soon they were desecrated by ethnic and communal violence. Focusing on two of them, this article shows that the extent of the violence was markedly different, and asks "why?'.
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