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How colonialism eroded Pakistan's history of religious fluidity


How colonialism eroded Pakistan’s history of religious fluidity
Haroon Khalid
© The complex containing the shrine of Ram Thaman, a 16th-century Hindu saint, where the annual festiv.
The complex containing the shrine of Ram Thaman, a 16th-century Hindu saint, where the annual festival of Vaisakhi begins in Ram Thaman, Pakistan, this year on April 13 [Haroon Khalid/Al Jazeera]
Inside the courtyard of a house in the village of Ram Thaman, near Lahore in Pakistan, an audience has gathered.
Next to a wooden cot, seven or eight young men are dancing in a circle, holding sticks that they occasionally beat together. Others – mostly men and one transgender person – join in, dancing passionately to the beats of these sticks. ....

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