Modi’s 2014 rise to power sparked India’s Islamophobia wave

Evidence

Disunity, for a man whose name circulated furiously through India, was at the top of the menu. Unlike Mrinal or Bourdain, Narendra Modi saw a nation comprised of past castes and existing divisions to be inflamed for his political benefit. Modi, the Hindu nationalist who rose to power in India in 2014, sparked the rise of Islamophobia on the subcontinent. I began tracking, with concern that gradually devolved into horror, the hate crimes and mob attacks targeting Muslims in India. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 386

Modi, the Hindu nationalist who rose to power in India in 2014, sparked the rise of Islamophobia on the subcontinent. I began tracking, with concern that gradually devolved into horror, the hate crimes and mob attacks targeting Muslims in India. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 386

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the global-synthesis view in Iftikhar; India joins the coordinated global Islamophobia the reader is mapping.
• QUESTION: Claims a direct causal spark from Modi’s rise without laying out mechanism or evidence here — worth chasing the empirical support in later chapters.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 386