The "Butcher of Gujarat," a title Modi earned for unspeakable violence against Muslims while chief minister of that state, was setting a new table for India. A table where Hindu nationalism was the main and only course, and where India's commitment to secularism would be diced up and disposed of.

DEFINE: Clarifies how the author frames Modi and the policy direction of his government toward Hindu nationalism.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 394