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EDITOR'S NOTE
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Girilal Jain belonged to that minority of Indian
intellectuals who welcomed the movement for the Ram
temple as part of the process of Hindu self-renewal and
self-affirmation. The rise of Hindus, he argued, was a
phenomenon that began 200 years ago with the
consolidation of the British Raj and the disarming of the
local populace. This produced a fundamental shift in the
power balance between Hindus and Muslims which has not
been reversed since, though it led to the partition of
the country in 1947. Every important Hindu leader from
Rammohan Roy to Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru has
made his contribution to the Hindu resurgence. The
Ramjanambhoomi movement was only the latest manifestation
of this phenomenon, its importance being that it had
placed the issued of the civilizational base of Indian
nationalism at the centre of the country's political
agenda.
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