>All
> nationalisms, whether of oppressed or oppressor nations, rest on ethic,
> exclusivist, racialist, culturally essentialist discourses
I am not sure what Michael Pugliese is talking about. The dominant current in Indian nationalism was not based on "ethnic, exclusivist, racialist, culturally essentialist discourses". It was democratic, secular and internationalist.
>which, when
> armed as they tend to be (are there Ghandian nationalists that ever win?
> I've always wondered if the huge slaughter in India post-Independence was
> anticipated) end up in megadeath.
Is this a reference to partition riots, Michael?
ulhas