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Hindu nationalism developed as a response to British Colonialism, and, Hindutva was first elaborated in 1923, as tensions were rising within the colonial British Raj.
British colonialism bad. Get that out of the way first.
But conflict along ethnic and regional lines has been occurring in India, between Hindus, for a LONG time.
Let's list the effects of British Colonalism
For more read: -This -This -This
And yes. Religious and ethnic problems were already here but Brits exacerbated it.
Yeah I said that more concisely. The British empire is bad. So, it's irrelevant to the point I made.
There are documented wars older than the country of Britain.
For sure, but that's in addition to the intercaste, interfaith, and intrafaith conflicts that have existed occurred for thousands of years. British colonization was terrible ofc, but it definitely wasn't the lone or even major cause of the problems occurring today.