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How did India seemingly become so right-wing? (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by Aquilae@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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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?

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[–] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 53 points 9 months ago

Vijay prashads got some good lectures on it but the gist of it is that this was a huge and expensive concerted effort spanning decades to manufacture and we are seeing it come to fruition now