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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).14      10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).14      Published : Mar 2025

Bharatiya Janata Party’s Nationalistic Policies under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its Impact on the Indian Muslims

    In 2019, Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of India for the second term. Since his first term in 2014, there has been a surge in Hindu nationalism and a declining secular ethos. Due to these changes in the political landscape of India, there has been enactment of several discriminatory laws against Muslims in Indian Occupied Kashmir and India. Right after coming to power in 2019, Modi revoked articles 370 and 35-a which granted  Indian-occupied Kashmir autonomy under the Indian Union. Moreover, the promulgation of the Citizenship Amendment Act has created insecurities for millions of Muslims. These structural policies have shrunk the space for the largest minority of India: the Muslims. There is limited knowledge of the structural policies against Muslims and how it affects them. This study will use the structural violence of Johan Galtung's violence triangle to contextualize the discriminatory policies put in place to marginalize Muslims.

    Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Hindu Nationalism, Indian Muslims, Structural Violence, Citizenship Amendment Act, Article 370
    (1) Fatima Ahmed
    Independent Research Scholar, Pakistan.
    (2) Tabish Munir
    MPhil Scholar, Faculty of Social Sciences, Quaid e Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.