Unbreaking India : Decisions On Article 370 And The CAA

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S anjay Dixit, who retired as Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Rajasthan, graduated as a marine engineer and sailed the high seas for a few years before changing course to civil services. He is also well-recognised as a cricket administrator who once defeated Lalit Modi in a famous election for the post of the president of the Rajasthan Cricket Association. Dixit is a prolific columnist on contemporary topics. He has a deep interest in Indian languages, culture, economics, history, philosophy and spirituality. He is the author of the Krishna trilogy whose two parts "Krishna Gopeshvara" and "Krishna Yogeshvara" have been released to critical acclaim. His six-part series- 'All Religions Are Not the Same-has been widely read and referenced. Dixit also heads The Jaipur Dialogues as its Chairman.

This is a much-needed book, especially at the present time. The issues of Article 370, CAA, Ram Mandir and the general status of Muslims in India have become over- politicized and been turned into an international sensation by certain people-appropriately characterized as Breaking India Forces. In response, several voices speaking on behalf of India's integrity and unity have rejoindered, but often very emotionally. What is lacking, and what this book supplies, is a well-researched, fact-based authentic account that can be relied upon as the basis for serious debates. I congratulate the author for the seriousness of his research and the calm logic throughout the book.

The book covers an eventful century of India's tryst with Islam from the Khilafat Movement to Shaheen Bagh. It provides clarity and sharp insight into the complex gameboard with multiple players at various points in time, and how the game changed from one period to the next. Certain threads run consistently throughout this century- Jong game: British agendas masked behind their cunning style; Nehruvian naivete and outright moronic behavior; and remarkable commitment and consistent hypocrisy of Muslim leaders.

There are numerous controversial details, but the author can present them with courage because he uses well- documented evidence. For instance, the treachery of Muslims in the Jammu and Kashmir army battalions in 1947 is not an isolated incident.

I was having a conversation with a senior TV journalist Madison Square Garden fame) on WhatsApp. Zee News had just then done a show on various kind of jihads, such as Physical Jihad (further sub-divided into population jihad, love jihad, education jihad, land jihad and direct violence), and Ideological Jihad (sub-divided into economic, history-writing, film and music, and secular disarming). This gentleman commented that 'The unspeakable communal HATE that is being spread by this channel on daily basis is shocking, shameful, dangerous', and also sent it to me.

This is, of course, the standard staple of the secular- liberal class of India, brought up as they are on a severely doctored history and diluted reality of the Muslim world view. The entire conversation around the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, which subsequently became an Act is based on a version of secular-liberal dogma that completely ignores the realities of Islamic ideology, particularly the variant of this ideology that did prevail, and prevails till date, in India.

To this WA message, I replied, 'Have you ever cared to read the Hidayah of Deoband, and Fataawa-i-Razvia of Bareilly? Your statement doesn't stand scrutiny in the face of these Islamic authorities.'

**Contents and Sample Pages**