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In 2000, when Uttarakhand emerged from the administrative womb of Uttar Pradesh, the air was thick with possibility and a rallying cry: “Uttarakhand ke chaar sipaahi; Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Isaai” (Uttarakhand’s four soldiers; Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christian).

Two and a half decades........

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