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BHARATIYA JANATA PARTYS NATIONALISTIC POLICIES UNDER PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI AND ITS IMPACT ON THE INDIAN MUSLIMS

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).14      10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).14      Published : Mar 2025

Bharatiya Janata Party’s Nationalistic Policies under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its Impact on the Indian Muslims

Abstract

    In 2019, Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of India for the second term. Since his first term in 2014, there has been a surge in Hindu nationalism and a declining secular ethos. Due to these changes in the political landscape of India, there has been enactment of several discriminatory laws against Muslims in Indian Occupied Kashmir and India. Right after coming to power in 2019, Modi revoked articles 370 and 35-a which granted  Indian-occupied Kashmir autonomy under the Indian Union. Moreover, the promulgation of the Citizenship Amendment Act has created insecurities for millions of Muslims. These structural policies have shrunk the space for the largest minority of India: the Muslims. There is limited knowledge of the structural policies against Muslims and how it affects them. This study will use the structural violence of Johan Galtung's violence triangle to contextualize the discriminatory policies put in place to marginalize Muslims.

    (1) Fatima Ahmed
    Independent Research Scholar, Pakistan.
    (2) Tabish Munir
    MPhil Scholar, Faculty of Social Sciences, Quaid e Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Ahmed, F., & Munir, T. (2025). Bharatiya Janata Party’s Nationalistic Policies under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its Impact on the Indian Muslims. Global Social Sciences Review, X(I), 157-168. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).14

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Ahmed, Fatima, and Tabish Munir. 2025. "Bharatiya Janata Party’s Nationalistic Policies under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its Impact on the Indian Muslims." Global Social Sciences Review, X (I): 157-168 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).14

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    HARVARD : AHMED, F. & MUNIR, T. 2025. Bharatiya Janata Party’s Nationalistic Policies under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its Impact on the Indian Muslims. Global Social Sciences Review, X, 157-168.

MHRA

    MHRA : Ahmed, Fatima, and Tabish Munir. 2025. "Bharatiya Janata Party’s Nationalistic Policies under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its Impact on the Indian Muslims." Global Social Sciences Review, X: 157-168

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    MLA : Ahmed, Fatima, and Tabish Munir. "Bharatiya Janata Party’s Nationalistic Policies under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its Impact on the Indian Muslims." Global Social Sciences Review, X.I (2025): 157-168 Print.

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    OXFORD : Ahmed, Fatima and Munir, Tabish (2025), "Bharatiya Janata Party’s Nationalistic Policies under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its Impact on the Indian Muslims", Global Social Sciences Review, X (I), 157-168

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Ahmed, Fatima, and Tabish Munir. "Bharatiya Janata Party’s Nationalistic Policies under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its Impact on the Indian Muslims." Global Social Sciences Review X, no. I (2025): 157-168. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2025(X-I).14