India’s Religious Ethnocracy: Hindutva Vigilantism and Police Violence in Uttar Pradesh

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Brief Overview

This paper proposes that contemporary India’s democratic conundrum, characterised by state-sustaining violence against minorities, is representative of an Indian variant of a ‘religious ethnocracy.’

Author

• Nidah Kaiser, The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London