{"id":63329,"date":"2024-04-14T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/14\/i-was-told-id-be-killed-if-i-didnt-leave-himalayan-state-is-a-testing-ground-for-modis-nationalism"},"modified":"2024-04-14T19:00:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T10:00:50","slug":"i-was-told-id-be-killed-if-i-didnt-leave-himalayan-state-is-a-testing-ground-for-modis-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63329","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was told I\u2019d be killed if I didn\u2019t leave\u2019: Himalayan state is a testing ground for Modi\u2019s nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A region known as \u2018God\u2019s land\u2019 offers a glimpse of the future if Indian prime minister\u2019s BJP party retains its power<\/p>\n<p>For centuries it has been known as the \u201cland of the gods\u201d. Stretching high up into the Himalayas, the Indian state of Uttarakhand is home to tens of thousands of Hindu temples and some of the holiest Hindu pilgrimage sites.<\/p>\n<p>Yet as Hindu nationalism has become the dominant political force in India under prime minister Narendra Modi over the past decade, the government is accused of weaponising Uttarakhand\u2019s sacred status for politics, making the state a \u201claboratory\u201d for some of the most extreme rightwing policies and rhetoric targeting the Muslim minority.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/14\/i-was-told-id-be-killed-if-i-didnt-leave-himalayan-state-is-a-testing-ground-for-modis-nationalism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A region known as \u2018God\u2019s land\u2019 offers a glimpse of the future if Indian prime minister\u2019s BJP party retains its powerFor centuries it has been known as the \u201cland of the gods\u201d. Stretching high up into the Himalayas, the Indian state of Uttarakhand is hom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[516,62,447,433,371,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","category-narendra-modi","category-religion","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63330,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63329\/revisions\/63330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}