Hindu-Muslim relations in India have come under the international spotlight following last year's terrible genocide in Gujarat. This pogrom, with its documented acts of barbarism that included immolation, rape and torture, went on for days under the nose of the state administration with no effort to check the slaughter. Over a year later, the courts have found nobody responsible for these acts that shamed India before the world, and severely compromised its secular standing. Reading the chapter dealing with these atrocities in Zakaria's book is chilling work.

But what led up to this anti-Muslim frenzy beyond the immediate trigger of the burning of a railway carriage containing some 50 Hindutva activists? Zakaria, a well-known scholar, puts much of the blame at Pakistan's a

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