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India is doing what a nation state does- erasure of difference, enforcing majoritarian ethos,asserting authority in the name of establishing sovereign control over territory. For what? a singular idea of nationhood,a homogenized political authority?
and as part of larger clear communal agenda in the name of undoing 'injustices' of both recent and distant past. What Nehruvian democracy conceded as symbolic gesture of accommodation is replaced by oppressive social reality of lynching/RSS dictated logic of national integration
Indian middle classes, as in any other fascist project, are part of the problem. They blamed the victim in case of cow vigilantism, hailed criminalizing of triple talaq as an act of emancipation (its complicated),and now cheering abolition of article 370.
Modi won't stop here. It will inevitably be followed by Ram Mandir - most probably closer to the next election. We can only hope that Hindutva card would run out sooner or later and the reality of caste oppression and class interests would take centre stage of political struggle
What's difficult to predict is how much of Indian democratic structure- especially its vibrant intelligentsia - would be intact by the time it happens. Or can it even happen if the democratic structure itself gets dissolved in the next few years!
PS: this is not to suggest that what India is doing is just 'normal' stuff, but how - in the inherent logic of nation-state in the contemporary world - the state of exception has become the new normal
