Hindutva reframed Hinduism as a political identity mandating Muslim exclusion from India

Evidence

That new law, dubbed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), aimed to deny naturalized citizenship to Muslim immigrants. This was another step toward the Hindutva vision of binding Indian citizenship with Hindu identity. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 418 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Sanatan dharm denotes an unreformed eternal Hinduism beyond the terms Hindu and Hinduism; Belief in Hindu shastras is incompatible with liberal or moderate self-identification; Sanatan dharma serves politically as a tool of religious assimilation and domination — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 160 (+17 more)

Related

• The Citizenship Amendment Act ties Indian citizenship to Hindu identity (similarity 0.92)
• The CAA redefined Indian citizenship to exclude Muslims in favor of Hindus (similarity 0.87)
• Modern India’s republic was founded on equal plural belonging (similarity 0.84)
• The CAA redefined Indian citizenship to institutionalize religious hierarchy. (similarity 0.84)
• Hindutva defines Indian citizenship by religion-of-origin within sacred territory (similarity 0.82)
• India’s CAA stripped citizenship from millions of predominantly Muslim residents (similarity 0.82)
• India’s NRC parallels both Trump’s Muslim Registry and Nuremberg laws (similarity 0.81)
• Belief in Hindu shastras is incompatible with liberal or moderate self-identification (similarity 0.80)
• India’s Citizenship Amendment Act functioned as its own Muslim travel and citizenship ban (similarity 0.79)
• India’s Citizenship Amendment Act mirrors the US Muslim Ban’s restricted logic (similarity 0.79)
• India’s CAA citizenship law restricted Muslim immigrants from neighboring countries (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Citizenship Amendment Act ties Indian citizenship to Hindu identity #exemplifies (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 418
• India’s citizenship laws make Indian nationality synonymous with Hindu identity #exemplifies (0.80)
• The CAA redefined Indian citizenship to exclude Muslims in favor of Hindus #contradicts (0.80)
• Religious minorities become politically suspect when religion ties to national identity #expands (0.70)
• Politicizing religion functions as assimilation as well as exclusion #expands (0.60)
• Essentializing Islam as singular enabled belief in pan-Indian conspiracies. #expands (0.50) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 119
• Islamophobia is a US political weapon deployed through proxies in India and China #expands (0.40)