Essay: 'Murderous Majorities' - by Mukul Kesavan. On the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya: a particularly vicious chapter in a long history of majoritarian nationalism in South Asia | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Majoritarian politics results from the patiently constructed self-image of an aggrieved, besieged majority that believes itself to be long-suffering and refuses to suffer in silence anymore. The cultivation of this sense of injury is the necessary precondition for the lynchings, pogroms, and ethnic cleansing that invariably follow.