Rising Violence against Muslims in India Under Modi and BJP Rule

While communal violence has been an ongoing and unfortunate reality for post-colonial and post-partition India, there's no sidestepping the fact that attacks and hate crime incidences against the country's Muslim minority by members of the Hindu majority have occurred in greater frequency and ferocity in the years since Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), came to power in 2014--on the back of a Hindu nationalist agenda, one in which anti-Muslim animus and discrimination features in mainstream political discourse and government policy These realities have brought Muslims to the brink of genocide in India and Kashmir. Keywords: India, Kashmir, Hindu Nationalism, Hindutva, Bharatiya Janata Party, Narendra Modi
Introduction Narendra Modi was sworn in as India's 14th Prime Minister on May 26, 2014, after promising to revitalize the Indian economy and implement the same kind of economic policies [...]