RISE OF VIOLENT HINDU EXTREMISM AND STATE RESPONSE IN INDIA

Abstract

The current research broadly focuses on violent religious extremism in India and its main focus is on
Hindu extremism against Muslims, the largest ethno-religious minority in the country. The approach is
that extremism is viable against ethnically minor groups in right-wing dominated political systems.
The political sections of the Hindu majority in India seem to have prominently been working on the
agenda of declaring the Muslims as foreigners. Furthermore, the Hindutva ideology is on the rise,
which hampers the growth of the minority groups and may result in the social degradation of
minorities. The research highlights “gap between theory and practice” and “unconstitutional
behavior” of political and social groups. The research also focuses on government response to
extremism against the Muslims in India. The qualitative method of research is used in the study that
relies mainly on documents in printed and electronic form.