Abstract
While right-wing attacks on the ideas of democracy and socialism in academia are a worldwide trend, in the remainder of the paper, I will focus on India, considered to be the largest democracy in the world. India has become a hotbed of right-wing politics, led by an authoritarian Hindu-nationalist government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). There are various reasons why this has happened which this paper will not discuss (Das, 2020a; Jaffrelot, 2021; Vanaik, 2017). Suffice to say that the BJP is the political wing of the fascistic paramilitary organization called RSS (or, National Volunteer Corps) which, in part inspired by European fascism, aims to build a Hindu nation where religious minorities can live only as second-class citizens.
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Das, Raju J.
(2024)
"The Right-Wing Attacks on the Academic Left in India,"
Class, Race and Corporate Power: Vol. 12:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/vol12/iss1/6