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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, in 1947 Indians have been grappling with the question of “who are we”? This as-yet- conclusive and unanswered, question represents India’s identity crisis. The failure to date, to resolve this crisis, has not only confused the majority but confounded the minorities as well. However, without a resolution of the crisis, which requires an explicit clear answer to this question, the majority will never understand how to relate to the legacy of the nation, and to the minorities. Minorities would understand how to adjust with the majority only if this identity crisis is resolved. In other words, the present dysfunctional perceptional mismatch in understanding who are we as a people, i.e. the salience and substance of the Indian identity, is behind most of the communal tension and inter- community distrust in the country. It also weakens India’s integrity.
Unless we settle the question clearly, 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 thus correct the currently perceived linkages to our past, to recognize that we are one people of the common DNA, and indigenous to the Hindustan 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.
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