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The Taliban’s destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan caused worldwide outrage, but there are many different kinds of fundamentalism, some far more powerful, and far more destructive, than the atavistic enthusiasms of a bunch of tribal zealots.
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Ramakrishnan, N. (2013). A Fundamental(ist) Irony. In: Reading Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325150_6
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