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Die Wurzeln des #Hindunationalismus
Der indische Langzeit-Premier Narendra
#Modi bezeichnet sich selbst als #Hindunationalist. Dahinter steckt ein politisches Konzept, das mehr als hundert Jahre alt ist und mit dem europäischen #Faschismus zusammenhängt.

Gut zusammengefasst, bis zur Gegenwart, mit einigen Sätzen von Scholz. Die, nach dem man gehört hat wie es mit der
#Demokratie und der #Pressefreiheit in #Indien gerade aussieht, ganz anders klingen.
#hindutva #bjp #RSS #vinayakdamodarsavarkar #rashtra #jati #sanskriti #hindustan

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/indien-hindunationalismus-100.html

Ein Gespräch über den #Hindu - #Nationalismus und die Popularität des Premierministers Narendra #Modi, die wenig beachteten und bei der Teilung Indiens vollkommen außen vor gelassenen #Sikhs, religiöse Konflikte und interreligiöse Hochzeiten, die Hintergründe Indiens möglicher Umbenennung in „#Bharat“ und wie wichtig es ist, die Illusion, die wir womöglich von Indien haben auf die Probe zu stellen.

#natuerlicheausrede 173 mit Oliver Schulz über #Indien - wissenschaftspodcasts.de
wissenschaftspodcasts.de/podca
#podcast #hindustan #hindutva #wissenschaft #podcast #hindunationalismus

»Wer die Enge seiner Zeit ermessen will, studiere Geschichte.« Tucholsky

wissenschaftspodcasts.de173 mit Oliver Schulz über Indien - wissenschaftspodcasts.deWolkenkratzer und Slums, wirtschaftlicher Aufschwung und bittere Armut, spiritueller Sehnsuchtsort und Atommacht. Indien, das bevölkerungsreichste Land der Welt einordnend zu beschreiben, ist ein komplexes Unterfangen. Der in Hamburg lebende Indologe & Tibetologe Oliver Schulz hat den indischen ...
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📜 Some history-changing events or trends were easy to see as they started unfolding. Just consider the various actors and their real motives and objectives. 🤯

Democracies, imperfect as they are, had opportunities to react and either prevent or mitigate nefarious developments, or they could just choose to not care.

I saw through #putin when the assassinations of critics first started. (NB. he already had neoimperialist track record!)

I've watched #CCP's *actions* through the eyes of its victims while listening its manipulative win-win BS. (never in doubt)

I knew America's 'Iraq adventure' would, besides a few other things, destroy #USA's standing in *most* of the world... (the wild exhilaration of Chinese nationalists was the icing on that cake)

#trump? One of the easiest characters ever to see through... (which makes all that followed all the more shocking...!)

As a natural 'liberal democratic' friend of tolerant and secular Indian republic — always an ideal — I've watched the rise and rise of the intolerant hindu nationalist populism with concern and sadness.

💥 I didn't foresee the Gov't of #India assassinating a political (religious) opponent — a citizen of #Canada —on Canadian soil and then revelling in its ability to execute the deed and to taunt the elected leader of the 'target country'. With apparently most of India 80% Hindu population — including the opposition — celebrating this new-found audaciously extraterritorial muscularity. 🙋️ (me=fail)

June 18, 2023 — the day Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down outside a Sikh gurdwara in Canada — may well mark brave new #Hindustan's coming-out party.

Now, I get the "why" without accepting the act's necessity. It's the "how", "where" and what followed that mark a new era. A hindu-nationalist India is *not* even interested in being full buddies with liberal democracies on a 'fundamental' level.

This actually exhaustively explains #Modi's solid attachment to the #CRIBS#BRICS alternative formula and Modi taking India into the "Shanghai Cooperation Organisation" (SCO) in 2015.

But just how far down the rabbit hole is the dominant Hindu electorate willing to follow, with "the greatest democracy's" closest allies consisting of a motley crew #AxisOfDespots whose sole unifying drive is "liberal democracy delenda est"?

There are 🇮🇳 Indian think-tank types and academics (also outside India) and hindu-nationalist influencers leading the fervent crowds in rather 'expressive' name-calling of reporters for merely reporting what governments are saying, and openly calling for the elected head of #Canada to be removed for simply doing what is universally expected of him: decrying the assassination of their citizen by a supposedly friendly foreign state, no less.

This has the hallmarks of the launch of a brave new era where hindu-nationalism reveals itself a *global* force for anti-liberalism ("Hindu might makes Hindu right").

The CCP is watching with glee as Modi's #Hindutva state severs links to the annoyingly liberal 'First World' countries.

#Hindustan's islamic foes are only too happy to again see a foe as ideologically fervent as they are; it may do wonders for their sagging recruitment of fanatics.

The hinduist indignation is, unsurprisingly, getting boosted by various existing disruptionist and divisionist assets online.

Where does this leave secular India, not to mention India's non-Hindu minorities?

Where does this leave India's still formidable but increasingly constrained opposition?

Where does this leave the large Indian diaspora, especially in the West? (also see CCP and its longstanding orchestration of the Chinese diaspora to manipulate internal politics of foreign countries)

Lots of other questions regarding India's integration (or lack thereof) with the *current* global economic systems and "rules-based order"...

#India#Bharat#Modi
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⬆️ “India wants to promote its democratic credentials to elevate its status on the international stage, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has chosen to showcase his government during the rotating presidency of the Group of 20. But the growing violence against minorities and suppression of civil society carry all the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.

If India is to be a true world leader, putting an end to human rights abuses needs to be a priority.”

#india #hindustan #hindunationalism #authoritarianism #modi
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