How ‘Yankee Hindutva’ Became a MAGA Satellite
“Today, US Hindutva’s animating narratives, long focused on intra-community fault lines, have increasingly found new articulations. For example, the movement’s long opposition to protections against caste discrimination, which have prompted a series of failed legal challenges, are now being hastily re-articulated as opposition to “DEI excesses.” Terms like “Critical Caste Theory,” borrowed from “Critical Race Theory,” and “Hindu in Name Only” [politicalresearch.org] (HINO), a riff on RINO (Republican in Name Only), have proliferated.”