Comments on: M.J. Akbar’s Tinderbox & Aag ko Pani Ka Bhay: Thoughts on Indian Sub-continent. https://www.brownpundits.com/2021/09/29/m-j-akbars-tinderbox-aag-ko-pani-ka-bhay-thoughts-on-indian-sub-continent/ A discussion of all things Brown.. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:31:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: girmit https://www.brownpundits.com/2021/09/29/m-j-akbars-tinderbox-aag-ko-pani-ka-bhay-thoughts-on-indian-sub-continent/#comment-91850 Wed, 29 Sep 2021 07:06:38 +0000 https://www.brownpundits.com/?p=16097#comment-91850 The class of men that founded the indian republic didn’t lack ambition, to say the least. They made unnatural, majoritarian preempting, arrangements to de-risk the enterprise within the horizon of their own lifetimes, while deferring long-term consequences. Also we forget that linguistic nationalism has its roots pre-independence, and they could see that its development (although latent) was closing the window of opportunity to be founders of this grandiose civilizational state.
Regarding the elite muslims that carried forth the “theory of distance”. Wouldn’t this only make sense in the parts of india that had long unbroken islamicate rule? Makes sense that gangetic muslims created pakistan as they were least accustomed to hindu rule. Through a kind of elite emulation, the muslims of more politically hindu regions became allies to their movement.

]]> By: Saurav https://www.brownpundits.com/2021/09/29/m-j-akbars-tinderbox-aag-ko-pani-ka-bhay-thoughts-on-indian-sub-continent/#comment-91849 Wed, 29 Sep 2021 06:24:08 +0000 https://www.brownpundits.com/?p=16097#comment-91849 Whenever i read the words ‘Aag’ and ‘paani’ , i remember this book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aag_Ka_Darya

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