%0 Journal Article %J Economic and Political Weekly %D 1998 %T Forging a 'National' Identity...by Force %A D Mahadevia %K CEPT University %K Kasturbhai Lalbhai Campus %X

The recent attack by a mob of outsiders on the staff and students of one of the country's premier institutes in Ahmedabad on the pretext of 'correcting' the behaviour and lifestyle brings into sharp focus the reach of the saffron brigade and the tacit support it has been granted by the current government.

%B Economic and Political Weekly %I Economic and Political Weekly %V 33 %P 2501-2503 %U http://www.jstor.org/stable/4407203