The Role of Hindutva and Identity Politics in Modi Foreign Policy and India-Pakistan Relations

Abstract

The anguish in ties between Pakistan and India has expedited in 2014. The agony in the relations between the two states started promptly after the emancipation from British Raj, but the woefulness in the relations triggered in Narendra Modi regime. The aims of the study are to explore the Modi’s Hindutva belligerent policies towards Pakistan and to discover the factors that paved the way for the xenophobic posture of Modi’s administration. Besides, the research is qualitative in nature. Primary and secondary data sources of qualitative methodology have followed, Prominent intellectuals and experts of the topic, face to face interview have followed. The secondary data has also taken from online sources, official documents, articles, past surveys, national and international journal, books and newspapers. The future of Pakistan and India is under the heavy clouds of confrontation because of the influence of Hindu Supremacists and Hindutva ideology in the Modi government, but hope always remain alive in the dark as Martin Luther King Jr. said that “ We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope”.