This is an idealized India, free of political and religious violence.

It has a limited history of factional and religious violence.

More than 400 people have died in religious violence this year.

People are living in harmony, and any religious violence is unheard of.

Authorities on the subject can only raise questions that may offer insight into who goes down the road to religious violence.

Innocent lives are lost in religious and communal violence, which has now become all too frequent.

It is estimated that 4000 people have been killed in religious violence over the last decade.

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Yet there has been little religious violence, and no pressure to impose Islamic law.

But since the return of democracy four years ago, 10,000 people have died in ethnic and religious violence.