Hindu supremacy’s century-long and frequently violent history includes over five decades of patient institution building in the United States. While Hindu Americans, like other minority communities, have faced racism in the US, a subsection of the community has responded not with anti-racist solidarity but a supremacist politics of their own. Hindu supremacists have emulated far-right organizational and ideological structures, first drawing inspiration from Mussolini’s Blackshirts in the 1920s, and today exhibiting deep affinities and collaborations with white supremacist projects in America – with avowed allies like Steve Bannon, an honorary chairman of the Republican Hindu Coalition, a paradigmatic example. In particular, white supremacy and Hindu supremacy unite around a shared project of spreading Islamophobia in the US, but they also jointly oppose many progressive causes, including affirmative action and civil rights protections. These have also produced deep fault lines within Indian American communities – most notably along the lines of religion and caste.
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