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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Part I . THREE HINDU NATIONALIST STRATEGIES STIGMATISING AND
EMULATING “ THREATENING OTHERS ' - THE FORMATION OF HINDU
NATIONALISM Hindu nationalism was constructed as an ideology between the
1870s and the ...
Part I . THREE HINDU NATIONALIST STRATEGIES STIGMATISING AND
EMULATING “ THREATENING OTHERS ' - THE FORMATION OF HINDU
NATIONALISM Hindu nationalism was constructed as an ideology between the
1870s and the ...
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Bluntschli was an exponent of German ethnic nationalism , and his writings
influenced many Hindu nationalists , including Golwalkar . Savarkar ' s
attachment to this kind of nationalism suggests that he was a zealot in the sense
defined by ...
Bluntschli was an exponent of German ethnic nationalism , and his writings
influenced many Hindu nationalists , including Golwalkar . Savarkar ' s
attachment to this kind of nationalism suggests that he was a zealot in the sense
defined by ...
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From the 1930s onward , Hindu nationalism was declared by the leaders of
Congress to be out of keeping with an Indian definition of nationality . This
definition recognised as primary units of the nation either ( in the case of Nehru )
individuals ...
From the 1930s onward , Hindu nationalism was declared by the leaders of
Congress to be out of keeping with an Indian definition of nationality . This
definition recognised as primary units of the nation either ( in the case of Nehru )
individuals ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THREE HINDU NATIONALIST STRATEGIES | 11 |
THE STRATEGY OF ETHNORELIGIOUS | 80 |
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| Title | The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics: 1925 to the 1990s : Strategies of Identity-building, Implantation and Mobilisation (with Special Reference to Central India) |
| Author | Christophe Jaffrelot |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Hurst, 1996 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Aug 2008 |
| ISBN | 1850651701, 9781850651703 |
| Length | 592 pages |
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