The authors consider the role of neoliberal education after the 1991 economic reforms in transforming India from a largely inclusive society to one where nationalist and religious populism results in minorities being denied basic rights, showing how education connected neoliberalism to Hindu nationalism. They illustrate how increased neoliberalism led to economic disaggregation and deregulation, along with decentralization, the rise of regional parties, and inequities between the north and south in India. They draw on data and information from across the country, key policy documents, and interviews with teachers in 2020 and 2021 to describe identity issues related to the advent of neoliberalism in India; the spread of Hindu nationalism in schools and changes in access to and the quality of education under the neoliberal education model, including how history was rewritten in new textbooks and the impact of Hindu nationalist and neoliberal agendas on private and government school education; the impact of neoliberalism on teachers, teacher agency, and their training, including higher education; and the impacts of education on citizenship under the Bharatiya Janata Party Modi government. Distributed in the US by Marston Book Services. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) India will soon be the world’s most populated country and its political development will shape the world of the 21st century. Yet Hindu nationalism – at the helm of contemporary Indian politics – is not well understood outside of India, and its links to the global neoliberal trajectory have not been explored. Covering 30 years of Indian politics, this book shows for the first time the importance of education in propagating the acceptance of Hindu nationalism within a neolberal system, including the reframing of the concept of Indian citizenship.The first five years of Modi rule failed to bring about the development that had been promised and have seen India’s rapid change from a largely inclusive society to one where religious minorities are denied their basic rights. Autorid: Marie Lall, Kusha Anand