Had an interesting discussion just now about whether true fascism is possible in a highly polyglot cultures (multiple languages/regional cultures) like India. I’d think a totalizing ideology would fail to properly cohere across cultural translation boundaries.
hypothesis: the necessary catalyst for a full-blown fascism outbreak is a sufficiently aggrieved majority culture + an elite class that has lost it's legitimacy and is weak against the advances of that aggrieved majority culture. U.S. not looking great these days. India? dunno.