The US Administration finds the extent of communal violence in recent months in India deeply troubling...

...The democratic tradition was well-established in the country and there was no need for concern over the future of India's democracy.

However, in a deeper sense, a lot of basic premises were under stress. The events in Ayodhya formed the first stress point in discussing the issue of secularism versus religious input in public affairs. In the past, the courts had been the accepted way to resolve such questions, but there was now a disposition in some quarters not to pay any attention to that process...

(Source: The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 16 January, 1991)