On 07-Sep-06, at 6:16 PM, sastry wrote:
Semantics aside, is India Hindu dominated or not? If you hear an
announcer on
the BBC saying "Pakistan and India have been to war three times
over the
status of Kashmir, which is the only Muslim majority state in Hindu
dominated
India", would say that is a fair description of what you see as the
truth?
Semantics *are* it, Shiv.
Who is the audience? What does "Hindu" mean to them? If the audience
are of the notion that Hinduism is a single religion that excludes
all Muslims and "dominated" refers to numerical majority, then yes,
the announcer is right.
For all other definitions of "Hindu" and "dominated", I can't say.
I have to ask you this, Shiv: Are you certain you are not projecting
your biases on an unwitting demography? Who defined "Hindu" for you
so that "Hindu dominated India" makes sense? Is that definition
shared by the rest of the country?
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://jace.seacrow.com/
