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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... Ayodhya is the site of the capital city of the same name where Ram was born in the Ramayana . It is entirely a question of belief . In the late eighteenth century , it was commonly believed that Ram's birthplace was marked by a small ...
... Ayodhya is the site of the capital city of the same name where Ram was born in the Ramayana . It is entirely a question of belief . In the late eighteenth century , it was commonly believed that Ram's birthplace was marked by a small ...
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... Ayodhya . However , the main object of such meetings was to reward local kar sevaks and honour those who had died in Ayodhya . The latter were presented as martyrs of a cause for which many had already given their lives . In fact , the ...
... Ayodhya . However , the main object of such meetings was to reward local kar sevaks and honour those who had died in Ayodhya . The latter were presented as martyrs of a cause for which many had already given their lives . In fact , the ...
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... Ayodhya for ' Bhagwan Ram ' , and added that he did not support the BJP as such but sympathised with its commitment to build a Ram temple at Ayodhya . He might abandon the party if it betrayed this cause . 56 None of the four kar sevaks ...
... Ayodhya for ' Bhagwan Ram ' , and added that he did not support the BJP as such but sympathised with its commitment to build a Ram temple at Ayodhya . He might abandon the party if it betrayed this cause . 56 None of the four kar sevaks ...
Contents
THREE HINDU NATIONALIST STRATEGIES | 11 |
A special kind of racism | 50 |
The primacy of social organism | 58 |
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