 why wouldn't the state protect its own citizens? Why is it that a city that is sort of divided by this river where one side of the city is Hindu and new and modern and has all this infrastructure and the other side is essentially a Muslim ghetto, why is it that one side was not protected and the other side life just went on as normal? These are the sort of haunting questions that this book is trying to answer of what is this preferential treatment for a majority of