At the very core of Hindu supremacy was an Islamophobia native to India's historical and political imagination. Muslims were believed to be Moghuls, a foreign people, and Hindus the indigenous people of India. This grand narrative drove Modi's political agenda and made conceptions around citizenship a matter of blood and soil instead of birthright or naturalization.

XREF: Connects to citizenship debates and blood-and-soil nationalism seen in other populist movements worldwide.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 404