Does the Hinduization of India by Modis harm the world order?

At least forty-four people were killed and hundreds were injured. Millions of people around the world are shaken. Delhi has not experienced such intense sectarian violence in decades. This sad event was not isolated, but a corollary of the campaign of indutiability and saffronization initiated by Modi in India. The emancipation of a secular constitution while building Pakistan as an existential threat to India can put the world on a dangerous trajectory of nuclear collision. The new Citizenship Amendment Law (CAA) has served as a precipitate, while the Hinduism campaign is a prerequisite for the resumption of the Gujarat riots. This time it happened in the heart of India: New Delhi.

Safranized India is the debilitating scenario of a new world order in general and for the region in particular.Prime Minister Imran Khan, addressing the international community in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), warned: "When a nuclear country country fights to the end, it will have consequences far beyond borders. This will have consequences for the world. The repercussions would not remain limited to the theater of war, but would shake the foundations of the order existing after the Second World War in the event of a nuclear war.

The Rand Cooperation, an American think tank, in its report "Building a Sustainable International Order" explained America's symbiotic relationships with the international order and the factors that threatened the health of this international order . However, if his health continues to deteriorate and complete the existing order, what is the next step? The project highlighted three possible health risks of the post-World War II order.

After revisionist powers and economic crises, changing domestic politics in an era of slow growth and growing inequality poses a serious threat to the health of the world order. Using South Asia as the main case study to analyze the third possible risk, one can easily understand how the belligerent India of Modi poses risks to the aftermath. war. To support this argument, the expansive tendencies of imperial Japan contain various lessons for understanding the consequences of non-compliance with the rules of the framework of international institutions and order.

At the regional level, the India of Modi tries to revise its foreign policy on ideological bases vis-à-vis its small neighbors in general and Pakistan in particular

Similar to imperial Japan in the 1930s, India emanates from expansionist tendencies in ideological, territorial and economic terms. For its misdiagnosed national interests, India has canceled the United Nations resolutions on Kashmir as imperial Japan did to the League of Nations in the case of Manchuria. Due to the failure of the institutional mechanism and the deterrence of democratic powers, the world slipped into the Second World War, causing world order to stem instability. If India does not change course and the civilized world does not realize it, the consequences could this time be more serious and far-reaching.

Over the past six years, the saffronization and ultranationalist ideology of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has radically transformed the democratic and secular contours enshrined in the Indian constitution. At the national level, the Hindu nationalist BJP launched a crusade on three fronts against the Muslim minority: first, he canceled the special status of Kashmir occupied by India (IoK) and shook the legal and moral foundations of Post-war order. Second, extremist Hindu organizations are unbridled to perpetrate religious violence against Muslims and other minorities without impunity; their houses are burned down, they are openly lynched and are forcibly converted. Third and finally, the integration of religious discrimination into law through the controversial CAA has affected peaceful coexistence.

At the regional level, India's Modi is trying to revise its foreign policy on ideological bases vis-à-vis its little neighbors in general and Pakistan in particular. Radical and radical changes in Indian politics, aspirations to a great power and candidacies for permanent membership in the Security Council could have dangerous ripple effects in the region. Pakistan's foreign policy is based on the Indian threat. Modi's anti-Pakistani and anti-Muslim rhetoric brought the two nuclear states, on February 26, 2019, to the brink of a full-blown war. A brief aerial combat avoided the catastrophe.

If Modi's India does not conform to international standards and law, human rights values ​​and the principles of the secular spirit of the Indian constitution, the thin line loopholes in the control line will lose relevance and begin to crumble under the heavy burden. of the Hinduism of India by Modi and the existence of Pakistan on the "theory of two nations". Once again, the riots in Delhi testified to the true essence of the theory of two nations.

Modi's crusade in Hindutva in South Asia coupled with America's latent response to the simmering cockpit of South Asia pose slow but daunting challenges to the aftermath -Second World War. The challenges have eroded America's moral position as a superpower.

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, said that the insufficient role of the United States in some regional dispute resolution has been instrumental in the development of anti-American sentiment. The Kashmir dispute is no exception. If the United States does not respond sufficiently and in a timely manner to radical changes in Indian domestic policy with their regional repercussions, "domestic policy change in an era of slow growth and growing inequality poses a serious threat to the health of the world order ".

Due to the declaration of Russia and China as the main threats to national security in the 2018 US defense strategy, it appears that the United States has adopted a policy of appeasement towards it of the findings of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding human rights violations in IoK and in the violent rise of Hindu ultra-nationalism and turning a blind eye to the Human Right Watch's findings of impunity for abuses by the security forces and inhuman treatment of Dalits, tribal groups and religious minorities. While, on the other hand, the United States has channeled huge machines, from the legislature to the media, to highlight China's detention camps for Muslims in Xinjiang.

The partial, compromised and appeasement mode of the guarantor of the world order gradually gives birth to a strategic autonomy of different regional powers which upset the regional balance of power. In many cases, the relatively partial role of the United States, its policies of appeasement misdiagnosed in the Indian context and its compromising attitude towards decades of persistent territorial problems pose numerous challenges to the health of the order. after the war. If the American and U.S.-led world order does not reaffirm and reaffirm its commitments to human rights, democracy and a liberal system, anarchy in order can become the ultimate cause of its collapse.

The author is an assistant / guest professor at a university in Islamabad