El populismo hinduista de Narendra Modi: reimaginando la nación india
Palabras clave:
India, Narendra Modi, Indira Gandhi, populismo, secularismoResumen
Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, nº 119
Cuatrimestral (mayo-septiembre 2018)
ISSN:1133-6595 | E-ISSN:2013-035X
DOI: doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2018.119.2.113
Este artículo analiza el impacto que el populismo del actual primer ministro Narendra Modi está teniendo sobre la democracia india. Nuestro análisis defiende que el populismo ha sido una herramienta útil en la profundización democrática en la India. La apelación al «pueblo», como construcción política de amplia base social, ha ayudado a transcender las tradicionales divisiones identitarias. Frente a esa tradición de populismo transversal e incluyente, el artículo examina la versión actual de Modi que, por el contrario, se construye sobre un exclusivismo hinduista. Dicha narrativa excluyente hace peligrar el contrato social nacido de la idea de la India como unidad en la diversidad.
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