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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... According to Dayananda , in that period the deity was wor- shipped in the form of an abstract Absolute - something the Arya Samaj ritual tried to restore- and , above all , no system of hereditary endogamous castes , the jatis , was ...
... According to Dayananda , in that period the deity was wor- shipped in the form of an abstract Absolute - something the Arya Samaj ritual tried to restore- and , above all , no system of hereditary endogamous castes , the jatis , was ...
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... according to him , rests on three pillars : geographical unity , racial features and a common culture . Savarkar mini- 53 V.D. Savarkar , Hindutva : Who is a Hindu ?, Bombay : S.S. Savarkar , 1969 , p . 140 . Naturally , this statement ...
... according to him , rests on three pillars : geographical unity , racial features and a common culture . Savarkar mini- 53 V.D. Savarkar , Hindutva : Who is a Hindu ?, Bombay : S.S. Savarkar , 1969 , p . 140 . Naturally , this statement ...
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... According to press reports , ' every Maruti car in the Burra Bazar area sported a " Jai Shri Ram " sticker ' . ' However it is undeniable that Bengali voters in Calcutta were also attracted to the BJP . " 108 109 In West Bengal the rise ...
... According to press reports , ' every Maruti car in the Burra Bazar area sported a " Jai Shri Ram " sticker ' . ' However it is undeniable that Bengali voters in Calcutta were also attracted to the BJP . " 108 109 In West Bengal the rise ...
Contents
THREE HINDU NATIONALIST STRATEGIES | 11 |
A special kind of racism | 50 |
The primacy of social organism | 58 |
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