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CIVILIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
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As
I said at the outset, I think in terms of civilizations and not of
nations or territorial states. This is a relatively new development
in my life and, to be candid, I do not believe it would have
crystallized to the extent it has if the Vishwa Hindu Parishad's (VHP)
campaign on the Ramjanambhoomi temple in Ayodhya had not acquired
the sweep it had by the time of the shilanyas in 1989; if this sweep
had not got translated into support for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
in the elections that followed the shilanyas; if the BJP had not, as
a result, become a significant factor in Indian politics, and,
finally, if the popular response to L.K. Advani's rath yatra had not
been as overwhelming as in fact it turned out to be.
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