In recent weeks, Britain has witnessed increasing tensions between Muslim and Hindu communities in Leicester with a real danger of this spilling over into other cities. The conventional wisdom that this broke out over a cricket match and involved ‘Islamist mobs’ engaged in intimidation and harassment of the local Hindu community is not just factually inaccurate, tiresome and racist in its assumptions, but incredibly dangerous. It completely ignores the role that Hindutva ethnonationalism has played in the situation and the British government’s tolerance and indeed support of this movement. “Wh…