Abstract
Individual or group identities based upon religion are able to cause political activation affecting cogency of governments and their policies. Imprint of religion on state’s politics affect the secularity of any federation and thus has the capacity of impact the existing political complexities and conflicts rooted in religious and political identities. The rationale of this research paper is to analyze if Indian oscillatory political behaviour fits neatly into the theoretical framework of Johan Galtung’s Conflict Triangle. The research paper seeks to (i) analyze radicalization of Indian society on the basis of Hindutva, (ii) validates that Indian politics transitioned from secularity to extremism under Modi’s Hindutva Nationalism and (iii) Indian political radicalization has worsened the already precarious situation of Kashmir Conflict. The paper in light of given framework fills the existing niche that Indian political extremism has transformed a relatively non-conflictual situation into a fully brewed conflict.
Highlights
It is often difficult to isolate religion from politics even in the most avowedly secular societies and the likelihood of religion affecting the politics is very high (Walker, 2011)
It is established that peoples’ commitment and devotion is often dictated by religion even for the universal religions who do not assert to come into conflict with the demands of politics and claim to incorporate whole of human race and governance paradigms rather than a selected group or community
The level of Indian Secular Democracy has deteriorated and it appears that India is exhibiting extremist religious attitudes and the original concept of democracy and secularism is in jeopardy
Summary
It is often difficult to isolate religion from politics even in the most avowedly secular societies and the likelihood of religion affecting the politics is very high (Walker, 2011). The level of Indian Secular Democracy has deteriorated and it appears that India is exhibiting extremist religious attitudes and the original concept of democracy and secularism is in jeopardy This argument is supplemented by exhibiting of a disturbing tendency, in the case of freedom of expression, alternative sources of information, rule of law, civil society, few electoral facets and strong ethno-religious inclinations which are manifested by the surge of violent actions against religious and ethnic minorities especially after political dominance of BJP post 2014 "Hinduize all politics and militarize Hindudom": A slogan of Savarkar exposed myth of Hindus’ non-tolerance towards other religious communities shaped the attitude and behavior of Indian society (Patnaik, & Chalam, 1998). and abrogation of Article 370, 35A and CAA marked the darkest events on Indian political history
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