Hypothesis: Communalization of Education is leading to increasing tension/alienation amongst religious communities and is being utilized as a tool for vote bank politics by politicians.

Case Study 1: The Saffronization of Educational Institutions
One of the first moves taken by Murli Manohar Joshi, HRD minister in 2000 was to appoint Mr. BR Grover as Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research. It was a widely held view that Mr. Grover was a historian of mediocre status and a RSS sympathizer of high standing. This decision elicited much indignation, however knowing the BJP’s policy of ‘pro-Hindutva,’ one could hardly have been much surprised. Mr. Grover, did everything in his power to promote RSS ideology and even managed ‘evidence’, as the VHP representative on a Govt. panel on the Babri Masjid dispute, to argue that a Ram temple indeed existed on the Babri Masjid site and that it was destroyed during Babar’s regime to build the mosque. The weight of historical scholarship and archaeological evidence which suggests the contrary was totally discounted. A few months prior to this the Council of ICHR was reconstituted to achieve a near monopoly for the RSS in this important institution. The Indian Council of Social Science Research has been given an even more ‘august’ scholar as Director. Mr. ML Sondhi is a person of long standing service to the RSS and has been a Jan Sangh MP in 1967. Earlier, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (Simla), the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (which comes under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting), and the All India Council for Technical Education had been similarly infiltrated. Vice Chancellors to various Universities have been appointed with the sole criteria of having a sympathizer at the helm of affairs. We are all aware of the amount of tension the Babri Masjid has caused, and it is a well known