http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/9553ad36750d5dfd https://verfassungsblog.de/the-end-of-a-dream/ The End of a Dream? - The Rise and Fall of India’s Secular Constitutionalism Narain, Vrinda eng 2024-04-23 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Hijab Ban Indian Constitution Indiana. Supreme Court of Judicature Indien Religionsfreiheit Säkularismus freedom of religion secularism Indiana. Supreme Court of Judicature Indien Religionsfreiheit Säkularismus Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have officially declared war on the hijab in 2022, but the Hindu right’s battle strategy has been set in place since at least 2014 when the BJP rose to power under the leadership of Narendra Modi. A tenacious master of populism, the BJP has successfully altered the mainstream Hindu perception of the Muslim as a threat to secularism. Within this imaginary, Muslims are believed to constantly seek exemptions from the secular regulations constraining the Hindu community.