A plural host that digests coherent rivals does not digest an exclusive story backed by power. Hinduism absorbed Buddhism (Leo, C-G2TEH8NZCP), but after the Turkish conquest "two narratives occupied the same geographical space and stubbornly refused to [blend], perhaps because their core doctrines were mutually exclusive," a "struggle that remains unresolved to this day." Holding many stories open has a limit: it works on stories that tolerate a both-and, and stalls into standing coexistence against one whose core forbids it.

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  The Turks were always, however, a militant Muslim minority trying to rule an overwhelmingly more numerous native Hindu majority. From this time forward, two narratives occupied the same geographical space and stubbornly refused to blush, perhaps because their core doctrines were mutually exclusive.

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  launching a dramatic struggle between two great world historical narratives, a struggle that remains unresolved to this day.

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  In the neighboring Mughal world, a great question was Islam or Hinduism? It couldn't be both.

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