He saw earlier than many the madness of clinging unelectably to the old faith, and was more ruthless than most in his apostasy.

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If instead the blame is placed at the door of Muslim or, for that matter, Hindu extremists, then the fears will be of reprisals and counter-reprisals, and a descent into communal madness of the sort that has killed Indians in their hundreds, even thousands, so many times before.

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