How state-backed Hindutva rhetoric is fuelling the ethnic cleansing of Uttarakhand

Extremist organisations project the hill state as the ‘holy land’ of Hindus and Muslims a ‘polluting presence’ unleashing a battery of ‘jihads’. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami with the Adi Kailash mountain behind him, Pithoragarh district on October 12. | Pushkar Singh Dhami @pushkardhami/Twitter India’s most populous hill state Uttarakhand is in unprecedented turmoil. It…