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'Sabka vishwas' with tear gas: how a protest crackdown became a test of India's democratic claim
As the grandson of B.R. Ambedkar denounces the use of force against a citizens' sit-in, the harder question is what India's claim to democratic legitimacy is supposed to mean when peaceful assembly meets the lathi.
Desk note: Monexus framed this through the lens of democratic accountability rather than sectarian politics, on the principle that the credibility of India's democratic claim is tested by how the state treats those at the margins of its own founding promise.
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