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Dr. Huntington quotes a 1931 judgment of the Supreme Court in which the apex Court held that the US is a Christian nation, and hence he advocates that acceptance of that is part of the American creed.
Since Independence from colonial rule, Indians in 1947 have been grappling with the questions of “who are we”? This as-yet-unanswered question represents India's identity crisis.
Unlesswesettlethequestionclearly,finally,unambiguously, and authoritatively as to who we are, Indians will flounder, flip- flop, and generally be devoid of healthy patriotism.
These then are the core fundamentals of nation: to know the salience in our identity, through a correct perception of our history, and to restructure our society on the basis of the substance of our identity.
To achieve such a reform, of course, requires a complete de- falsification of Indian history, rejecting that portion that has been deliberately contrived by British imperialists and their compradors, and to correct the currently perceived linkages to our past, to recognize that we are one people of the common DNA, and indigenous to the Hindustan and peninsula.
In India, the majority is the Hindu community that represents about 81 per cent of the total Indian population, while minorities are constituted by Muslims (13 per cent) and Christians (3 per cent). Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and some other small religious groups, represent the remaining 3 per cent. Though these smaller groups are also considered minorities, but are really so close to the majority community in culture that they are considered as partners of Hindu society. They share the core concepts with Hindus such as reincarnation, equality of all religions, and ability to meet God in this very life by penance. That some of them feel increasingly alienated from Hindus society nowadays is also the consequence of India’s identity crisis.
Over the last five centuries, there had been attempts to divide the Hindu community into casted and races which attempts if had been successful would have made India a Muslim or Christian majority nation.
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