In BJP-Ruled States There Were Cases of Lynchings, Anti-Love Jihad Mobilisations, Instances of Reconversions to Hinduism, Violent Attempts at Ghettoizing Muslims… But Nothing as Systematic as Today
Christophe Jaffrelot, author of Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy
You have done work on Narendra Modi in the past also, starting with his tenure in Gujarat. What kindled your interest in him and what has sustained it?
I am not interested in Narendra Modi as a person, but as an exemplar of national populism, a…
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