The Saffron State: An analysis of Bureaucratic and Administrative Development of India Under Modi from 2018-2022

The Modi government reorganized internal state structures, going further than traditional cultural ‎frameworks in exercising ideological influence through the path of governance. This research looks ‎into saffronisation in India from a new angle. It looks into how lawless but Hindutva-friendly ‎activities undermined constitutional policing, legal, and bureaucratic neutral governance through ‎strategic appointments, parliamentary manoeuvring, and unofficial support structures. Evolution of ‎saffronisation in governance is understood in terms of political science and governance frameworks of ‎embedded autonomy, executive aggrandizement, institutional theory. It portrays incremental ‎institutional capture through case study, legal history, and data of the employment of UAPA and the ‎pendency of cases in judiciary. This study serves as a sign of democratic regression, the institutional ‎decline also serves as the indicator of the structural reconstitution of the Indian administration.