Hindutva has a dichotic relationship with women. His advocates between passionate advocates of women, if such a position enables them to be parrot, and carry out other Islamophobic stories and their political purposes and their political goals and carry out coordinated harassment campaigns against women in order to resist or oppose the ideology.
If women do not bend according to Hindutva’s will and compete against his rancid and split rhetoric, they are constantly bothered, exposed to threats and become the recipients of hideous women’s hostility. The consequences of the Pahalgam attack Has brought the problem into the blatant focus, the victims bothering and threatening their refusal to become props for the Hindutva agenda.
The main load of this harassment was borne by Himanshi Narwal, a survivor of the attack. Narwal’s husband, a naval officer, was killed in Pahalgam on April 22, 2025. In the days after the attack, Narwal became a favorite of the right, with Hindutva outfit and supporters claiming their grief and loss against other Islamophobic rhetoric and political messaging.
However, at Narwal told the press She does not want her to aim at Kashmiris or Muslims and only peace and justice for her late husband. It was exposed to women’s hostile trolling, slut shame and threats.
While nature and the scale of Narwal’s harassment became a national topic of conversation, such coordinated harassment and misogyny for the course within the Hindutva ecosystem, in which women are either mouthpieces for ideology, are propaganda or goals. The right -wing anger in the direction of Narwal because he refused to become an instrument for propaganda or to have the exploitation of her husband’s death and her grief for ideological activities an enemy of Hindutva.
India’s military reaction to the Pahangam attack, which was carried out in the early morning hours of May 7, 2025, was referred to as the “Operation Sindoor”. An apparent alluding to the widows of the men who died in Pahalgam, especially Himanshi Narwal. While Hindutva uses women and the idea of ”avenging”, they are with a binary file with the right -wing extremist ideology or the risky malignant harassment with a binary view.
Women as Hindutva props
In Hindutva policy, women are only props that can be exploited to maintain Islamophobia. Narwals is not an isolated case; It is only a name in a long list of women who had large, coordinated hate campaigns against them because they refused to give themselves to Hindutva. Even under the victims of Pahalgam’s attack, Narwal is not the only one that was exposed to harassment.
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Arathi Menon, another survivor, whose father was killed in Pahalgam, was suspended Similar harassment To tell the press Two Muslim locals helped her And her children follow the attack and she sees her as her brothers.
Narwal and Menon have not packed the split Islamophobic rhetoric of the right, and they were relentlessly bothered. A main support of the Hindutva propaganda is the “protection” of women, but if women stand against being used as political props, dilute the Hindutva rhetoric and cause anger. Hindutva is deeply rooted in traditional ideas of masculinity. In patriarchal societies, this confluence enables traditional masculinity and paternalistic ideas of women’s Heuers and security to use women as effective propaganda. At the center of Himanshi Narwal’s harassment, rumors were that it was romantically associated with Muslim men or was still.
This shows perfectly how political ideologies that are rooted in masculinity take advantage of patriarchal framework conditions to promote their agendas. The patriarchal concept of honor of women and the subsequent focus on endogamy and chastity of women are fertile reason for political exploitation if it is associated with Islamophobia. Hindu women are particularly susceptible to exploitation by Muslim men by relying on patriarchal and sexist ideas about women.
While Himanshi Narwal became the face of the tragedy, she also became a political farmer. A picture of her that was sitting next to her late husband immediately after the attack was transformed into a cartoon by BJP ChhattiSgarh’s official grip in a tweet, which has now been deleted, to push a Hindu against Muslim rhetoric and presumably as a shot on the Kaste Volks counting.
This serves as the basis for numerous right-wing extremist propaganda, with women having a large part of the front and center in a large part of Islamophobic Hindutva rhetoric. “Liebenjihad”, a Hindutva conspiracy theory that Muslim men Hindu women in a coordinated exertion, last to convert into Islam in mass, use the same game book -commits Islamophobia by having patriarchal terms about women’s ninaility and the risk of Exogamous and drawing of Hindut and drawing. -Out -out -out -out -out -out -out -mascality through healing masculity through healing masculine through healing masculea through healing masculity through healing masculine through healing masculity through healing masculity through healing grinds and masculine through healing grinds and masculity through healing males through healing masculinity Hördelen. Governments) as the “savior” of these women.
Other propaganda, such as those of ‘Land Dschihad’, who act before the elections in the Jharkhand elections, follow along the same direction. The BJP 2024 election campaign in the state had alarmism.Bangladeschi infiltratorsflooded the state and gets in Hindu and Adivasi Land. The term “Land Dschihad” was used extensively in the run-up to the elections of Hindutva outfits and political leaders to refer to the alleged phenomenon of Muslim men, who lured Adivasi women and married to gain access to their ancestral countries. Even the Hindutva Whatabouation in relation to minority rights in Muslim majority disorders-to justify or distract the poor treatment of minorities in India or to distract them from them-the pictures of women and girls and cases of violence against them.
The name “Operation Sindoor” creates ideas of traditional masculinity and protection of women by avenging their loss. While Himanshi Narwal became the face of the tragedy, she also became a political farmer. A picture of her that was sitting next to her late husband immediately after the attack was transformed into a cartoon by BJP ChhattiSgarh’s official grip in a tweet, which has now been deleted, to push a Hindu against Muslim rhetoric and presumably as a shot on the Kaste Volks counting. The AI imageIn the style of the Ghibli animation (due to the recent popularity of the Ai Ghibli trend) “Dharam Poocha, Jaati Nahin (they asked their religion, not the caste).”
The widows that the government is supposed to repent are the widows, whose grief and loss they turned them into a cartoon last week. Himanshi’s refusal to slander the common Kashmiris or Indian Muslims despite the tragedy of Pahangam and the later increase in anti-Muslim power across the country, caused an important blow to the Islamophobic news that right-wing extremist messaging was used by using it.
Coordinated harassment campaigns
The Hindutva nuisance of women to Pahangam does not end with survivors of the incident like Narwal and Menon. After escalating tensions with Pakistan and the request for de-escalation from the left, numerous people, especially women, were relentlessly bothered because of their anti-war posture. While trolling, threats, misogyny and demands of legal steps to standard reactions became the request for de -escalation, prominent women who made such statements or took a critical attitude against the government were relentlessly harassed, doxxated and submitted to them.
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Wire journalist Arpa Khanum Shearman was doxxedAnd your phone number and e -mail were uploaded online. The tweet was with your information retweeted With a notorious Hindutva troll account to ensure that hundreds of thousands of users who follow the account were achieved. This is only one of numerous cases in which these reports are women who are attitudes against Hindutva are doxxxxxxxcip. Last year the Same account Was responsible for Doxxing Journalist son Ayub.
Days later, India’s Foreign Minister Vikram Misri had to be forced to complete his X account Right This was motivated by the announcement of an armistice with Pakistan. The government’s decision to duck out Hindutva IrishAnd Misri, as the face of the decision, was the goal. Misri’s daughter, Didon Misri, received most of the harassment, whereby numerous insulting and sexually colored comments were addressed to her.
Hindutva Targeting of Didon Misri worsened when numerous rights X (formerly Twitter) reported that they provided Rohingya refugees in India free of charge. According to Mohammed Zubair, a co-founder of factual examination and old news, was a notorious Hindutva account first responsible For the orientation of Didon Misri. According to Alt News, this account and the account mentioned above are that Ayub retired in the past year and the personal data of Sherwani. run from the same man.
However, such a right-wing harassment of women is not a phenomenon that is limited to a person or some X accounts. In the days after Pahalgam’s attack, a prominent Hindutva X account with almost 300,000 followers tweeted a sexually explicit and humiliating poem as a reaction to a Pakistani analyst. The verses were copied from a tweet from another right -wing account. This became a trend, and several Hindutva accounts have newly published the original verses or the modified (but also explicit and humiliating) versions in response to the tweets of several Indian and Pakistani women. Such actions are routinely and unpunished by Hindutva troll accounts.
According to Pahangam, many women like many women Neha Singh RathorePresent Shaila NegiAnd Madri Kakoti (Dr. Medusa on Twitter), who spoke against the government or called Islamophobia, were also exposed to incessantly harassment and threats. Two of them (Rathore and Kakoti) also had Fir submitted against them. On the one hand, Hindutva supporters and the government use women for rhetoric, on the other hand, women are still harassed and arbitrarily exposed to state measures While the threats of Hindutva claim to “protect”, women are often presented, the threats that women are exposed to the targeted, large-scale harassment by online Hindutva ecosystem is only too real.
Akshita Prasad is a writer whose work focuses primarily on feminism. social and institutional justice, Law and politics, politics and pop culture.
