Certain features associated with neo-fascism have manifested themselves quite clearly during its ascendancy in India. These easily observable features are: the “othering” of a hapless minority and the generation of hatred against it among the majority; the unleashing of repression both by organs of the state as well as by neo-fascist thugs on members of this minority, on critics, on those belonging to the political opposition, on intellectuals, artists and others; and the open, unadulterated class rule by monopoly capital, especially by a newer segment of monopoly capital.
