Majoritarianism is a political pandemic: Mukul Kesavan
The Hindu
Vakkom Moulavi Memorial Lecture 2021 delivered
Terming majoritarianism a ‘political pandemic’, writer-historian Mukul Kesavan has said such tendencies have become an existential threat to pluralist societies and polities across the world.
He was delivering the Vakkom Moulavi Memorial Lecture 2021 organised by Vakkom Moulavi Memorial and Research Centre (VMMRC) on the theme ‘A comparative understanding of modern majoritarianism’ at Vakkom on Monday.
Mr. Kesavan, an associate professor of History and Culture at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi, pointed out majoritarianism that referred to a notion that a nation’s political destiny should be determined by ethnic or religious majority had affected many countries including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, in the first decade of their independence.