The Modi regime used law to pursue demographic ethnic cleansing

Evidence

To be Hindu was to be Indian, the Modi regime proclaimed by way of rhetoric and then policy. And to be Indian, Hindutva lore held, was to cast out Muslims regardless of their legal status or ties to the land. Indian Islamophobia, as devised by the Modi regime, was a full-fledged remaking of Indian identity, one driven by a demographic reengineering of society that used federal and state law to push forward a slow-moving ethnic cleansing project. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 405

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘slow-moving ethnic cleansing project’ via law parallels the legal-mechanisms thread in the chapter on state learning — connects to how other states deploy citizenship law as Islamophobic instrument.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that legal-demographic reengineering constitutes a slow-motion ethnic cleansing — cleansed not by violence but by citizenship law — reframes how to define ethnic cleansing and where it can occur.