Browsing through comments on youtube videos about India right now is crazy. Full of Islamophobic, racist rhetoric almost indistinguishable from white nationalist ones (example CW: Islamophobia).
I get that BJP is responsible for appealing to hindu nationalist sentiment and making it worse, but what are the material reasons that caused a former br*tish colony to become like this?
India, imo, is a loose collection of peoples with the single uniting factor being anti-colonial solidarity, a sentiment that looks to be fading fast. The faultlines in this artificially concocted polity are plenty, and what they’re witnessing now can be interpreted as the Hindutva movement conjuring a national myth that solidifies the Hindu position (specifically the Vedic flavor) as the numerical majority and asserting their sole right to the land.