A SERIES of incidents in the past three weeks have illustrated, more starkly than in the recent past, the two forces that are in battle for India’s soul. On one side are Hindu nationalists, on the rise since the election to power of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) last year, and ranged against it are diverse political parties whose pull is in the opposite direction.

The former first:

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