In contrast, the Hindu right sees Islam as a foreign religion that is incompatible with an Indian ethnostate.
The modern Indian state exists precisely because it couldn't coexist with Muslims to the east or west. Endless internal conflict made the old empire ripe for Imperial control, and every new Hindu-Nationalist leader seems to inevitably fall into the lap of Western capitalists.
Hopefully, the Chinese sphere of influence expands and provides a third way between reactionary nationalist oppression and another generation of balkinization.
The modern Indian state exists precisely because it couldn't coexist with Muslims to the east or west. Endless internal conflict made the old empire ripe for Imperial control, and every new Hindu-Nationalist leader seems to inevitably fall into the lap of Western capitalists.
Hopefully, the Chinese sphere of influence expands and provides a third way between reactionary nationalist oppression and another generation of balkinization.