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July 26, 2022

On the “saffronisation” of India’s foreign policy establishment | P. Raman (in The Wire)

 The Wire

There have been urgent whispers about the “saffronisation” of India’s foreign policy establishment ever since Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014, writes P. Raman. 

In 2017, the Ministry of External Affairs released an official publication on the Bharatiya Janata Party ideologue, Deendayal Upadhyaya, titled Integral Humanism. As if this were not odd enough – the ministry has never involved itself with domestic politics – its contents were also unusual:  it equated ‘Indian thought’ with ‘Hindu thought’ and spoke of how “Hindu society has begun the work of organising itself”.


Though evidence of the transformation of India’s outward projection from Nehruvian internationalism to Hindutva  is all around us [ . . . ]

https://thewire.in/government/ambassadors-of-hindutva-how-saffron-has-seeped-into-our-diplomatic-space