The root problem of divisiveness in the Subcontinent stems from the arrogant assumption of the contemporary (Aryan) exponents of aggressive Hinduism that they speak for the whole of India.
For what it is worth, this is a traveller´s contribution to the current heated debate over India´s hung Parliament. Mainstream thinking considers the Indian electorate bloody-minded in its indecision. But one can also regard the impasse as inevitable, owing to the clash of past religious prejudice against the masses and the psychological hangups of a minority who seek to re-establish their hold on power.
Any overview of India´s religious history usually starts at the ancient Indus valley site of Mohenjodaro. Though now alienated from Hinduism in the heart of Pakistan, the fact is, Hindus hardened their hearts against the Indus several thousand years before Partition.
A founding myth of today´s right-wing Hindu neo-Aryans (neo for ´northern´, ´extremist´ and ´orthodox´)—those committed to re-establishing what they cherish as a glorious era in Indian history—is that the fair-skinned Aryans possessed a superior civilisation to that of their darker Dravidian foes whose cities they overcame.