A Hindutva Empire is Worse Than 100 British Empires – Blaming Modi’s Aggression on 1940s Britain is Intellectual Cowardice – By Adam Garrie
… there is a separate phenomenon which helps explain why under the government of Indian Premier Narendra Modi, Kashmiris are currently dying in silence whilst the jingoistic pro-Modi media continues to fan the flames of hatred and war.
…whilst empires like that of Britain sought to divide and rule for the purposes of securing material gain, Modi’s BJP is governed by a principle which seeks something far beyond divide and rule. The end-goal of the Hindutva philosophy to which Modi subscribes is not to divide and rule but to divide and eliminate. In this sense, Hindutva + political power is far more dangerous than was a British Empire whose violence was motivated by avarice, rather than conducted as an end in itself.…
Crucially, far from seeking to live harmoniously in a super-state, Savarkar and his comrades sought to subjugate and moreover eliminate non-Hindus based on the theory that Muslims and other minority religious groups represent an alien force living on supposedly pure Hindu lands. To bolster his fake view of history, Savarkar openly praised the fascist policies of Adolf Hitler who sought to cleanse Europe of supposed alien elements.…
SEE ALSO:
- Muslim exclusion in Modi’s de facto Hindu Rashtra – By Christophe Jaffrelot (Mar 1, 2019, The Caravan)
https://caravanmagazine.in/perspective/muslim-exclusion-modi-de-facto-hindu-rashtra - Are Indian Muslims a liability or an asset for India’s West Asia relations? – By Omair Anas (Mar 1, 2019, Daily Sabah)
https://www.dailysabah.com/op-ed/2019/03/01/are-indian-muslims-a-liability-or-an-asset-for-indias-west-asia-relations - How ANI reports the government’s version of truth – By Praveen Donthi (Mar 1, 2019, The Caravan)
https://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/ani-reports-government-version-truth - Being an ‘anti-national’ is not a crime – Editorial (Mar 3, 2019, The Telegraph)
https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/being-an-anti-national-is-not-a-crime/cid/1686060
