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 [ . . . ]
