{"id":29173,"date":"2024-02-02T18:54:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T18:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=29173"},"modified":"2024-02-02T22:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T22:04:43","slug":"india-lurches-toward-full-fledged-fascism-modis-hindu-supremacism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/02\/india-lurches-toward-full-fledged-fascism-modis-hindu-supremacism\/","title":{"rendered":"India lurches toward full-fledged fascism – Modi\u2019s Hindu supremacism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following article was first posted as Progressive International Briefing No 4<\/a>. Its title is self-explanatory.<\/strong><\/p>\n


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INDIA LURCHES TOWARD FULL-FLEDGED FASCISM – MODI’S HINDU SUPREMACISM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, the 26th of January, India celebrates “Republic Day,” the day it adopted its constitution as an independent country after 200 years of British colonialism \u2014 as a \u201cSovereign, Socialist, Secular Democratic Republic committed to Justice, Equality and Liberty for\u00a0the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

In sharp contrast, earlier this week, the current government, led by Narendra Modi, made a decisive move to overthrow India\u2019s secular constitution in the name of a new Hindu supremacist nation.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his re-election campaign with the inauguration of a new multimillion-dollar Hindu temple upon the ruins of a mosque destroyed by fundamentalist mobs.<\/p>\n

30 years prior, on 6 December 1992, Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party-led a violent mob to demolish the Mosque to rubble \u2014 claiming that it was the ancient site of a Hindu temple for Lord Ram or the \u201cRam Mandir\u201d. In the bloody communal riots that followed, over 2,000 people were killed.<\/p>\n

A thorough investigation led by Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan found 68 people to be responsible for the demolition of the Mosque \u2014 mostly leaders from the BJP, including senior figures and members of Parliament such as AB Vajpayee, who went on to become the Prime Minister in 1996, LK Advani, and Vijaya Raje Scindia. None of them have faced legal repercussions to date.<\/p>\n

Since then, the ruling BJP government has embraced \u201cRam Mandir\u201d as a battle cry for their nation-building project. \u201cRam is the faith of India, Ram is the foundation of India. Ram is the idea of India, Ram is the law of India,\u201d Modi said in his address to the nation on Monday.<\/p>\n

As Prime Minister, Modi has pushed this Hindu-nationalism as India\u2019s dominant political force: banning the hijab in schools, introducing \u201canti-conversion\u201d laws, abusing municipal forces to demolish Muslim households and shops in cities, and pushing for a \u201cuniform civil code\u201d in law.<\/p>\n

Now, in open defiance of India’s secular constitution, Modi fuses “Prime Minister” with “Chief Priest” to conduct the consecration of this controversial temple.<\/p>\n

The \u201ccelebration\u201d is not limited to Ayodhya. A holiday was announced in several states, instructing government offices, schools, and markets to remain closed for the public broadcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cIslamophobia is no longer a fringe sentiment in India. It has become a state-manufactured ideology,\u201d read the warning issued by Genocide Watch in 2023. The 10-year term of the country\u2019s Hindu nationalist government has seen escalating violence and conflict against Muslims, who make up its largest minority \u2014 and a steady weakening of democratic institutions that could stand in the way.<\/p>\n

We will be reporting from the ground across India, organising briefings and keeping you updated with developments ahead of and through the general election in April.<\/p>\n

The people of India have struggled for decades to secure a democracy that is secular, just, and equal. Modi must not be permitted to rob them of it now.<\/p>\n

26.1.24<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The unbearable manicheanism of the \u201canti-imperialist\u201d left -William I. Robinson, Anti* Capitalist Resistance<\/a><\/h6>\n
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Rishi Sunak defends Suella Braverman\u2019s appearance at radical \u2018National Conservatism\u2019 event alongside \u2018Great Replacement\u2019 conspiracy theorists and Covid deniers – Adam Bienkov and Karam Bale, Byline Supplement<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>\n
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From Ukraine to Palestine: the poisons of denialism – David Finkel, Against the Current<\/a><\/h6>\n
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Arundhati Roy on things that can and cannot be said: The dismantling of the world as we know it – Arundhati Roy, thewire<\/a><\/h6>\n

Afghan and Kurdish women revolutionaries urge joined up global resistance – Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan and the Kurdis Confederation of Women’s organisations, The Canary<\/a><\/p>\n

EL&SD Coverage \u2013 Looking at the world through non-campist lenses<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The following article was first posted as Progressive International Briefing No 4. Its title is self-explanatory. INDIA LURCHES TOWARD FULL-FLEDGED FASCISM – MODI’S HINDU SUPREMACISM Today, the 26th of January, India celebrates “Republic Day,” the day it adopted its constitution as an independent country after 200 years of British colonialism \u2014 as a \u201cSovereign, Socialist,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1843,1855,1858,1861,1856,1857,1868,8866,8976,1862,1860,8977,8840],"tags":[9265],"class_list":["post-29173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-capitalists-organise","category-exploitation-and-emancipation","category-oppression-liberation","category-alienation-self-determination","category-economic-struggles","category-environmental-degradation","category-against-imperialism","category-disease-ill-health","category-migrant-struggles","category-ideology-and-religion","category-other-social-struggles","category-science-secularism","category-india-south-asia","tag-author-progressive-international"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.scot\/@rcfscotland\/111863401611265177","error":""},"views":2835,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29173"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29204,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29173\/revisions\/29204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}