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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... Hindu nationalism , the instrumentalisation of ethno - religious symbols and the reliance on RSS - trained activists , was increasingly replaced by moderate strategies that allowed for an understanding to be reached with Hindu ...
... Hindu nationalism , the instrumentalisation of ethno - religious symbols and the reliance on RSS - trained activists , was increasingly replaced by moderate strategies that allowed for an understanding to be reached with Hindu ...
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... Hindu nationalist movement in implementing an instrumentalist strategy . The political situation in India after 15 August 1947 was a priori favourable to Hindu nationalism . Hindus formed an even larger propor- tion of the population in ...
... Hindu nationalist movement in implementing an instrumentalist strategy . The political situation in India after 15 August 1947 was a priori favourable to Hindu nationalism . Hindus formed an even larger propor- tion of the population in ...
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... Hindus - which was the ideal of the Hindu nationalists , who wanted to see the minorities assimilated into Hindu culture . Furthermore , the Congress party promoted a definition of Indian nationality that was based on a composite notion ...
... Hindus - which was the ideal of the Hindu nationalists , who wanted to see the minorities assimilated into Hindu culture . Furthermore , the Congress party promoted a definition of Indian nationality that was based on a composite notion ...
Contents
THREE HINDU NATIONALIST STRATEGIES | 11 |
A special kind of racism | 50 |
The primacy of social organism | 58 |
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