Communal Organisations

When History substitutes Governance: Hindutva’s Politics of Manufacturing Pasts

Inventing kings, rebranding dynasties, and fabricating history to mask policy failure and engineer caste-communal politics

Hindu Nationalism’s sectarian nationalism and its concept of ‘duties and rights’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent undermining of rights through emphasising “duties” is both a majoritarian and feudal re-affirmation common to authoritarian states and societies

The Politics of Processions: How the Sanatan Ekta Padyatra amplified hate speech in plain sight

As the Sanatan Ekta Padyatra traversed 422 village panchayats across three states, it carried not merely religious symbolism but explicit political messaging. Calls for a Hindu Rashtra, vilification of Muslim communities, and assertions of majoritarian dominance raise serious questions under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita’s provisions on promoting enmity, inciting violence, and disturbing public tranquillity. Yet, as the aftermath shows, ranging from protests in Datia to a clash in Vrindavan, the legal system’s response has been fragmented and cautious. This report interrogates that legal vacuum, situating the padyatra within established precedents of hate-speech jurisprudence and the enduring gap between statutory safeguards and ground-level enforcement.

The Orchestrated Extremism: An analysis of communal hate speech in India’s election cycle (2024–2025)

This piece uncovers the rise of digital warfare—from caste-coded AI videos in Bihar to calls for the economic segregation of vendors—detailing the calculated strategy to fracture society and weaponise Dalits against Muslims to divert attention from joblessness and poverty

November 26: How RSS mourned the passage of India’s Constitution by the Constituent Assembly

On November 26, 2025, India’s 77th Constitution Day, students of history must recall how majoritarian outfits like the RSS mourned the passage of modern India’s liberating moment, the passage of the Constitution

Judicial Pushback against Cow Vigilantism: Allahabad HC flags arbitrary FIRs, demands accountability from top officials

The Court exposes the way a regulatory law has become a system of targeted persecution of minorities through arbitrary FIRs under the 1955 law while ignoring the Supreme Court’s binding directives to prohibit group violence

Madhya Pradesh Muslim man lynched in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara over cattle transport; family alleges religious targeting & extortion plot

Family alleges hate crime and extortion as Bhilwara police probe mob attack; victim leaves behind wife and two young children

Sectarian nationalism and god men: Sri Sri Ravishankar attends the 75th Birthday of the RSS chief

While objective conditions of distress lead large numbers of people into the arms of these god men, several hagiographical legitimise the phenomenon; few serious analytical studies on their links to power and the state are however available, material that would help de-construct their image.

Navratri: Communal demands mark pre-festival protest in Jabalpur

Right-wing outfits AHP–Rashtriya Bajrang Dal demands Muslim ban at Navratri garba in Jabalpur, citing ‘love jihad’, demand Aadhaar checks, warns administration of consequences if tensions escalate

Indian tricolour & the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

RSS-BJP rulers have called upon Indians to unfurl Tricolour, our national flag on the eve of 79th Independence Day of India. In RSS-BJP ruled states this is now a “must” for madrasas and some Mosques.

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UP’s syncretic warrior cults facing Hindutva challenge

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