{"id":6053,"date":"2024-03-30T20:40:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T20:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=6053"},"modified":"2024-03-30T20:41:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T20:41:04","slug":"the-modi-government-is-a-regime-of-low-intensity-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=6053","title":{"rendered":"The Modi Government Is a Regime of Low-Intensity Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Interviewee: <\/b>Thomas Blom Hansen<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Affiliation:<\/b> Stanford University<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher:<\/b> The Nation<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Date\/Place:<\/b> March 24, 2021\/New York, USA<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature:<\/b> Interview<\/span><\/p>

Word Count:<\/b> 1850<\/span><\/p>

Link:<\/b> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/world\/thomas-blom-hansen-interview\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Keywords: <\/b>India, Hindu nationalism, RSS, Narendra Modi, Terror, Hate, Islamophobia<\/span><\/p>

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In his study of the rise in Hindu nationalism, laced with racism and anti-Islamic behavior, in India, Stanford anthropologist Thomas Blom Hansen explains why the RSS+BJP (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Bharatiya Janata Party) ruling regime in the country of 1.3 billion people resembles Italy and Germany of the 1930s. \u2018The enjoyment of violence, the pleasures of hatred and vengeful fantasies and the license to kill\u2019 are features that make India similar to pre-World War-II Germany, he notes. This interview of Hansen is for his new book \u2013 <\/span>The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics<\/span><\/i>. He says the RSS+BJP combined and took the first steps of their entry into mass politics with their campaign to attack Babri Masjid to \u201cliberate the birthplace\u201d of one of their gods, Ram. After the early 16<\/span>th<\/span> century mosque was attacked in 1992, the author says the Hindu nationalists were themselves surprised over their \u201csuccess.\u201d The so-called propaganda of development (vikas Godhra) of Narendra Modi before the 2014 general elections and an ineffective opposition boosted the BJP to return to its anti-Muslim and bigoted colors, he says. Challenging the narrative of RSS+BJP working to unify Hindus, he raises questions on their prospects to climb the ladder when they enter the organization. RSS is an upper Hindu caste organization, and lower caste Hindus find place only in violent outfits of the right-wing organization. Views of its foot soldiers are not considered in the self-appointed hierarchy of its command. Inside the Indian parliament where the RSS+BJP enjoy an undefeatable majority, although the constitution boasts of pluralism, socialism, and democracy, the Denmark-born author reminds readers that the founders of the organization were never part of India\u2019s independence movement. He emphasizes that RSS is not a democratic organization. On criticism of the opposition parties and the so-called progressive\/leftist parties of Modi\u2019s policies, Hansen says the situation of minorities\u2014especially Muslims\u2014has been the same under their rule. They remained marginalized while India\u2019s left ruled West Bengal province for decades. In his observation about the Indian Muslims, he says Indian Muslims understand that any radical gesture is simply going to backfire, thus what he terms \u201cMuslim radicalism\u201d has few takers in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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By:<\/b> Riyaz ul Khaliq, CIGA Non-Resident Research Associate<\/span><\/p>



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