The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics: 1925 to the 1990s : Strategies of Identity-building, Implantation and Mobilisation (with Special Reference to Central India)The violent campaign to erect a temple to Lord Ram on a site occupied by a mosque in the north Indian city of Ayodhya is only the latest manifestation of extreme Hindu nationalism. Hindu chauvinists argue that India's Hindu heritage was usurped by the secular idealism of the Nehru dynasty and their pandering to the interests of minorities, above all the 120 million Muslims. In the 1991 general election the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), the principal political vehicle for Hindu militancy, won some notable victories and became the largest opposition party in parliament. |
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... Advani or Vajpayee , the amalgamation was accepted as a precondition for the return to democracy , and this reorientation went hand in hand with an amendment on the ideological plane . " 112 It seemed that these men were prepared to ...
... Advani or Vajpayee , the amalgamation was accepted as a precondition for the return to democracy , and this reorientation went hand in hand with an amendment on the ideological plane . " 112 It seemed that these men were prepared to ...
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... Advani's speeches were becoming more militant in tone . In his address to the 8th plenary session of the BJP in May 1986 , he called for a ban on cow slaughter , a uniform civil code and the abrogation of article 370 of the Constitution ...
... Advani's speeches were becoming more militant in tone . In his address to the 8th plenary session of the BJP in May 1986 , he called for a ban on cow slaughter , a uniform civil code and the abrogation of article 370 of the Constitution ...
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... Advani's forehead a tilak from his own blood ; and at Jeptur ( near Rajkot ) about a hundred more offered him a jar full of their own blood . In Bombay Advani took part in nine meetings , some in the company of Bal Thackeray , the chief ...
... Advani's forehead a tilak from his own blood ; and at Jeptur ( near Rajkot ) about a hundred more offered him a jar full of their own blood . In Bombay Advani took part in nine meetings , some in the company of Bal Thackeray , the chief ...
Contents
THREE HINDU NATIONALIST STRATEGIES | 11 |
A special kind of racism | 50 |
The primacy of social organism | 58 |
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