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The Hindu-nationalist movement under Modi cannot be understood outside the unique context of the Indian subcontinent: its historical domination by various empires, culminating in the British Raj the trauma of partition and the resulting, unresolved conflict between India and Pakistan, with its deep religious overtones.

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The BJPвЂ™s evocative nationalist language, describing Muslims as вЂњinfiltrators,вЂќ reflects an ideological belief that Indian identity is inextricable from Hinduism and that Muslims in particular cannot be full participants in Indian society because they have conflicting loyalties. The citizenship law, along with the revocation of KashmirвЂ™s autonomy, is a centerpiece of his second-term agenda. Modi cemented his hold on power when the BJP expanded its majority in Parliament in last yearвЂ™s national election, following a campaign in which the prime minister let his religious-nationalist flag fly. Meanwhile, India is building mass detention centers for the Muslims it is already stripping of citizenship in Assam. Dilip Ghosh, the BJPвЂ™s leader in West Bengal, said the quiet part out loud last month, when he said that his party was intent on вЂњthrowing outвЂќ 10 million Bangladeshi Muslim вЂњinfiltratorsвЂќ from the state and denouncing those opposing the law as traitors. The governmentвЂ™s claim that the CAA is purely an act of benevolence is further undercut by the tendency of BJP politicians to refer to Muslim migrants as вЂњinfiltratorsвЂќ and вЂњtermites,вЂќ the open contempt for Muslims shown by Modi and other members of his party, and by other actions his government has taken recently - like revoking the autonomy of the disputed territory of Kashmir and declining to investigate lynchings of Muslims. Additionally, critics argue, the CAA violates IndiaвЂ™s constitution, which defines the country as a secular republic and guarantees equality under the law, by creating an implicit religious test for citizenship. Deflating this logic, the lawвЂ™s critics point out that most of IndiaвЂ™s asylum seekers today come from China, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar, while it includes no protections for Muslim minority sects that do face persecution in its Muslim-majority neighbors. The governmentвЂ™s stated rationale for excluding Muslims from the CAA is that the bill is intended to protect victims of religious persecution and that since the three countries identified in the bill are Muslim countries, Muslims canвЂ™t claim to be persecuted there. Commission on International Religious Freedom as вЂњa targeted mechanism to disenfranchise AssamвЂ™s Bengali Muslim communityвЂќ - to all of India, further exacerbating these fears. The government has also announced plans to expand the National Register of Citizens - currently only maintained in the northeastern state of Assam and already described by the U.S. Even if they have lived in India for decades, or were born there, many of these people lack the documentation the government is asking for and are not confident that they will be allowed to remain even if they do. Millions of Muslims in the Indian states bordering Bangladesh fear that the CAA will render them stateless -and that this is precisely the point. However, that right only applies to Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, and adherents of several smaller religions, but not to Muslims. The law in question, the Citizenship Amendment Act, is nominally intended to create a path to citizenship for people from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan who migrated to India illegally prior to 2014. The precipitating event for this weekвЂ™s chaos was a rally held in New Delhi by Kapil Mishra, an MP from the Hindu nationalist BJP party, in support of the law. The conflict that led to the riots centers on a new citizenship law championed by the Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi and passed by IndiaвЂ™s Parliament in December, which is viewed as discriminatory toward Muslims. The violence began on Sunday, one day before President Donald Trump arrived there on his first state visit to India. Most of the victims were Muslim - many of them shot by police - though Hindus are also among those who were killed, injured, or had their property damaged. IndiaвЂ™s capital New Delhi has been convulsed this week by the worst sectarian violence the city has seen in decades, with at least 38 people killed and over 200 injured, as rioters ransacked homes, shops, cars, and mosques in several of the cityвЂ™s Muslim neighborhoods. Photo: Hindustan Times/Hindustan Times via Getty Images New Delhi has been wracked by ethnic violence this week.

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