It could be Odisha and west Bengal and some more areas...if you are mentioning the importance of sea and how far it is from perceived dangers...
It is about the demographics I think...the people and the place.
In India case it is different, it a kind of a revisionist, a renaissance, a vendetta(against perceived Islamic destruction/Christianity), going back to Vedic roots and rediscovering Hindutva Hinduism...
And many a times more fraught with extremist dangers, fascism, supremacist ideologue...you name it. And the worst thing is that people tend to get blinded by all these prevalent things.