Recent events such as the abrogation of Article 370, the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s participation in the bhoomi pujan of the Ramjanambhoomi Temple have prompted several observers to comment that these are signals that India is being transformed from a secular to a Hindu nationalist polity. Analysts have provided many reasons rooted in history for the rise of Hindu nationalism. These include the British divide-and-rule policy and the dedicated commitment of ideologues like Savarkar and Golwalkar and organizations such as the RSS that diligently promoted the Hindutva ideology for a century. Additionally, the self-destruction of the Congress party, the Ram Temple movement, and the charisma of Narendra Modi have been cited as the more proximate reasons for the meteoric ascent of the Hindu nationalist ideology.