Kashmir’s semi-autonomous status made it vulnerable to Hindu supremacist annexation

Evidence

Modi’s portrait of a Hindu India did not stop at its current borders. “To be a Hindu means a person who sees this land, from the Indus River to the sea,” goes the RSS lore that drives the modern Hindu supremacy spearheaded by Modi. The Indus flows through the heart of Kashmir, thus making the territory—which has long held semi-autonomous status, a designation established to avoid war—vulnerable to full-fledged annexation. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 503

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s stated purpose: the global synthesis of Islamophobic state policies reading alongside Iftikhar — this is a national case showing territorial/hindutva logic.
• SHARE: The RSS framing of Hindu identity as ‘from the Indus River to the sea’ directly grounds the annexation in blood-and-soil ideology — worth sending to someone tracking Hindutva territorial claims.