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Upper casteism
When Prime Minister V. P. Singh launched the Mandal Commission to broaden reservations in government and public university jobs to a significant portion of the Shudras who were officially branded the Other Backward Classes (OBC), the mouthpiece of the Hindutva organisation RSS, Organiser magazine, wrote of "an urgent need to build up moral and spiritual forces to counter any fallout from an expected Shudra revolution".

According to social scientist and economist Jean Drèze, the Mandal commission angered the upper castes and threatened to distance the OBCs, but the Babri Masjid's destruction and ensuing events helped to reduce this challenge and reunified Hindus on an anti-Muslim stance. He further claims "The Hindutva project is a lifeboat for the upper castes in so far as it promises to restore the Brahminical social order" and the potential enemies of this ideology is anybody whose acts or might hinder the process of restoring the Brahminic social order. Drèze further claims that although Hindutva is known as a majoritarian movement, it can be best expressed as an oppressive minority movement.

According to French political scientist Christophe Jaffrelot, the Sangh Parivar organisations with their Hindutva ideology have strived to impose the belief structure of the upper caste Hindus. According to Dalit rights activist and political theorist Kancha Ilaiah, "Hindutva Is Nothing But Brahminism" and that only "Dalitisation can effectively counter the danger of Brahminical fascism disguised as Hindutva".

'''According to Sociologist Amritorupa Sen the privileges of the upper caste and especially Brahmins have become invisible. There has been a cultural norm that Brahmins take care of the lower castes out of a moral responsibility but also out of human kindness. This creates an intrinsically unequal social structure.'''

Hinduvata/Nationalist Pop
==== Hinduvata Pop describes a relatively new genre of music associated with Hinduvata ideals. This genre of music openly calls for violence against many non-Hindu minorities but especially Muslims. Many Hinduvata pop artists publicly claim that their music is not xenophobic or islamophobic but instead simply preaches the truth. The development of this genre is important because music is a large part of Indian culture. The xenophobic ideals of the genre are becoming more and more mainstream due to popular artists such as Laxmi Dubey and Prem Krishnavanshi. After the BJP came into led with the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi this type of anti-Muslim rhetoric became more wide-spread and accepted. ====