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| | Manas: History and Politics, Constitution of India |
 | | India handed Pakistan the defeat that least of all it can tolerate, and to some it no longer mattered if India reached the final: the World Cup had been played out, and the celebrations on the streets in Indian cities were on a grandiose scale. |
 | | There is no such thing as a Pakistani civilization, and though Pakistanis might like to believe that their civilizational moorings are derived preeminently from Islam, they should apprise themselves of what middle eastern Islam, which has set itself up as the true and authentic version of the faith, thinks of the Islam of South Asia. |
 | | Likewise, the Hindus in India, if they were not so accustomed to thinking of India as a nation-state, might begin to think of Pakistan as an inextricable part of Indian civilization; they might even, however unthinkable it sounds, recognize in Islam a part of themselves. |
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