Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the coming of a “New India” in 2017 – in his Independence Day speech and his New Year’s Eve address that year. After his re-election in 2019, the project of superimposing a new India gathered pace. Since then, it is clear to any observer of Indian politics that a transition is under way – the old order is almost done away with.
In the name of attacking Jawaharlal Nehru, the Congress Party, and so on, what has been actually happening is a frontal attack on the constitutional republic that came into being in 1950. By invoking ideas of New India, Viksit Bharat, and Hindu nationalism, a new regime has been ushered in. That new regime is now slowly stabilising.
Many would choose to believe that the new regime is still some way off. They would cite the many weaknesses of current power structures to argue that neither a new regime nor a new hegemony has successfully installed itself. However, it would be well to realise that the regime’s penchant for repression and violence, its impetuousness, and its irritability are not signs of unsteadiness. They are its organic characteristics.
It is a regime characterised by excitable assertions of power and a...
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