Bharat Akhandan (भारत अखण्डन)

When anti-CAA protests swept Indian cities in late 2019 and early 2020, the violence that followed did not look accidental to Sanjay Dixit. In this closely argued study, he traces those events back to a single contested idea: whether Muslims and non-Muslims can share a political community as equals. He begins with Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's own analysis of Partition and with the Islamic doctrinal position — that Muslims will not accept minority status under non-Muslim rule — that Ambedkar identified as a driving force behind the demand for a separate nation.

Dixit then turns to Article 370 and the deeper history of Kashmir's transformations, starting with the reign of Sultan Sikandar Butshikan, whose campaign of idol-breaking and forced conversions in the fourteenth century marked the beginning of the valley's Islamisation. He argues that the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in 1989–90 was not a singular event but the seventh such expulsion in a recurring pattern. Throughout, he interrogates the political mythologies — around Sufism, around Indian Muslims' voluntary choice of a secular state — that he contends have obscured this history from public discourse.

Readers who want to understand the ideological architecture behind CAA opposition and the Article 370 abrogation will find Dixit's analysis direct and unsparing.