On August 15, 1947, India gained independence from Imperial Britain. The Indian Independence movement represented very modernist ideas as it was always evolving ideologically and was anti-colonialst in nature. The partition caused the split and subsequent creation of India and Pakistan as individual nations. Both nations remained under Crown Dominion until India's constitution was established forming the Republic of India in 1950. Pakistan's constitution was established in 1971.Independence was however overshadowed by the violence and confusion this split created in the people. This split began the decolonization of India from Imperial Britain. India saw a rise in Hindu nationalism from parties such as Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Pradip Jain, a spokesman for the RSS (a subset of the BJP) said, “Just like every family has a head, every society has a head, and religion is its head.” This Hindu nationalism fought against modernism by attempting to institutionalize a traditional religion. 

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George, Cherian. “The Rise of Hindu Nationalism.” The MIT Press Reader, 28 Feb. 2022, thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-rise-of-hindu-nationalism/.