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a number of modern Hindus are beginning to question the validity of
the politics of non-violence, because the passive attitudes of the
Indian government, often under the pretext of non-violence or
tolerance, have not been able to end the violence in the country
even after fifty years. The government of India, they say, has
frequently bowed before minority interests to calm minority riots
and assuage their threats of violence.
The riots and separatist movements
have not ceased - as is evident in Kashmir - but rather Hindus, like
the Kashmiri Pandits, have been oppressed and turned into refugees
in their own land. It appears that anti-Hindu elements in India have
learned to resort to violence or threats of violence to gain
privileges, and that it usually works. Meanwhile Hindus fail to see
that their practice of non-violence has not ended the violence but
only served to make them permanent victims, even by the minorities
around them.
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