The Making of a Hindu Republic of India | Politics
Two landmark elections and a determined majoritarian push are reconstituting the idea of India as we knew it.
Make no mistake about this. Republic 2.0 is coming. At any rate, a serious attÂempt is being made to usher it in. The second decade of the 21st century could well go down in history as the beginnÂing of a conscious, deliberate and determined effort by Narendra Modi's government to create the Hindu Republic of India. The logic is this: if Pakistan and Afghanistan can call themselves Islamic republics, and if another Muslim-majority neighbour, Bangladesh, can declare Islam to be its state religion, why can't Hindu-majority India become a Hindu Republic? The passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill is a foretaste of this change in the years and decades to come.
India has witnessed 17
