As the country celebrates 70 years of independence,it seems to be turning its back on the secular, tolerant society I remember growing up in MumbaiIn 1960, or 13 years after India won freedom,the American writer Selig Harrison published India: The Most risky Decades. He feared “the collapse of the Indian state into regional components” ruled by communists. Predicting that India would never be able to match China, he wrote: “The west confronts the unmistakable fact of a dominant central authority in China, and it is possible that in an unstable India no outsider will be able to say with assurance where political legitimacy resides.”I smuggled £800 in specially made underwear to finance my first year at Loughborough University Related: Partition of India and Pakistan 70 years on – share your stories Related: Narendra Modi: India's saviour,or sectarian with blood on his hands? | Ian Jack Continue reading...
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