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The 1993 volume of "India Briefing" is published as great turbulence and uncertainty continue to rock this vast country. A close examination of the events leading up to and following the destruction of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya as well as an analysis of India's version of secularism and of Hindu nationalism form the core of the politics section, whilst the economics chapter explores the impact of the major Bombay stock market scandal and the continued loosening of economic restrictions by the P.V. Narasimha government. Other chapters cover a whole range of national and international policy, the legal system, social and popular culture.