Against entrenched identities

My piece ('One versus group', IE, Feb 13), coauthored with Rajeev Mantri, has received multiple scholarly rebuttals by Ashutosh Varshney, Javed Anand and others. While this debate about the role of group identity in today's India must continue, it was important to interject because of the perhaps inadvertent characterisation of my central argument.

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