Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy

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On 6 December 2020, he became the fourth-longest-serving Prime Minister of India and the longest-serving non- Congress prime minister. Amid growing populist rhetoric and misinformation, responsible and accountable leadership on human rights issues in India is desperately needed. This award recognizes the progress India has made in providing safe sanitation under his leadership.

In December 2013, the magistrate's court rejected the protest petition, accepting the SIT's finding there was no evidence against Modi. Modi Kaka Ka Gaon (Modi uncle's town), a 2017 Indian Hindi-language drama film by Tushar Amrish Goel, is the first biopic about Modi. Modi repealed 1,200 obsolete laws in first three years as prime minister; 1,301 such laws had been repealed by previous governments in the previous 64 years.

The Modi administration tried to attract foreign investment in the Indian economy from several sources, especially East Asia, with the use of slogans such as " Make in India" and " Digital India". A second wave of the pandemic that began in March 2021 was significantly more devastating than the first; some parts of India experienced shortages of vaccines, hospital beds, oxygen cylinders and other medical supplies. Main article: Bharatiya Janata Party campaign for the 2014 Indian general election Narendra Modi hands over his resignation as Maninagar MLA to the Speaker of the Gujarat Vidhan Sabha. Even as Mr Modi appears at the temple in Ayodhya in northern India, the other pillar of his mission continues apace: India’s extraordinary modernisation. To the alarm of India’s 200m Muslims, and many secular-minded Indians, it will mark a high point of a decades-long Hindu-nationalist project to dominate India.

The state government later stated 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed during the riots; [117] independent sources put the death toll at over 2,000, [116] [115] [122] the vast majority of them Muslims. The activities of a number of Hindu nationalist organisations increased in scope after Modi's appointment as prime minister, sometimes with the government's support. Modi's administration brought renewed attention to India's "Look East Policy", which was instituted in 1991. Killing a Constitution with a Thousand Cuts: Executive Aggrandizement and Party-state Fusion in India".this work emerges as an important contribution to the study of the future of democracy in India and beyond. World leaders including PM Narendra Modi with Bear Grylls in Man vs Wild Program at Discovery India". The government also tried to reconstitute the National Board for Wildlife so it would no longer have representatives from NGOs but the Supreme Court of India blocked this move.

While Modi was training with the RSS, he also met Vasant Gajendragadkar and Nathalal Jaghda, Bharatiya Jana Sangh leaders who in 1980 helped found the BJP's Gujarat unit. During the 2014 election campaign, the BJP projected an image of Modi as a strong, masculine leader who would be able to take difficult decisions.For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. Speaking with Assamese students in 2014, Modi downplayed climate change, saying, "Climate has not changed. In 2008, Modi offered land in Gujarat to Tata Motors to set up a plant manufacturing the Nano car after popular agitation had forced the company to move out of West Bengal. More than 19,000 Indian nationals were evacuated, [403] [404] including some from neighbouring countries. But if decision-making becomes authoritarian and erratic as Mr Modi grows old and isolated, and if institutions are weakened, firms will grow warier of deploying huge sums of capital.

State officials later prevented riot victims from leaving the refugee camps, which were often unable to meet the needs of those living there. In 1978, Modi received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in political science from the School of Open Learning [78] at the Delhi University. RCR ( 7, Race Course Road), a 2014 Indian docudrama political television series which charts the political careers of prominent Indian politicians, covered Modi's rise to the PM's office in the episodes "Story of Narendra Modi from 1950 to 2001", "Story of Narendra Modi in Controversial Years from 2001 to 2013", "Truth Behind Brand Modi", "Election Journey of Narendra Modi to 7 RCR", and "Masterplan of Narendra Modi's NDA Govt", with Sangam Rai in the role of Modi. Modi's administration passed a land-reform bill that allowed it to acquire private agricultural land without conducting a social impact assessment, and without the consent of the farmers who owned it.

In this regard, this paper identifies and examines the key trends and issues in foreign policy under the Modi led administration and the measures needed to translate speeches and policies into action. During the first few months after his appointment as PM, Modi visited a number of countries in support of his policy, and attended the BRICS, ASEAN and G20 summits.