In the India of the 1990s, the best insult you could aim at anyone who didn’t think that religious minorities should be murdered at will or whim was ‘pseudo-secularist’. This word was coined by LK Advani of the Bharatiya Janata Party and he, amongst many others, thought he had been very clever. “You pseudo-secularist” was chucked about, with attendant sniggers, at anyone who dared to argue that destroying the Babri Masjid was overdoing it or killing Muslims in riots was was wrong.