Heartland Rising : The Making Of Majoritarian India – Javed Gaya

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How did India arrive at its majoritarian moment? Javed Gaya traces its roots back to the 1940s — to Partition and the making of the Constitution — and to a choice between two principles: liberty, as ‘one man, one vote’, and equality, as meaningful political representation for minorities within a federal structure.

Gaya argues that the early republic chose wrongly, and that Partition and the rise of the Hindi heartland have since reshaped India’s social and political path — deepening caste and communal divides, weakening constitutional safeguards and federalism, and narrowing the space for pluralism. Both a diagnosis and a warning.