Browsing through comments on youtube videos about India right now is crazy. Full of Islamophobic, racist rhetoric almost indistinguishable from white nationalist ones (example CW: Islamophobia).
I get that BJP is responsible for appealing to hindu nationalist sentiment and making it worse, but what are the material reasons that caused a former br*tish colony to become like this?
One thing I haven't seen pointed out is that climate change models (and current realities) are not at all kind to India, and we see repeatedly in history that this leads to right-wing extremism/reactionism.