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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... appeals to this impulse by advocating the sacrifice of self for society , organiza- tionally expressed through service in the RSS and by deference to RSS leaders . 265 When we look for reasons to explain the RSS's appeal in the 1940s ...
... appeals to this impulse by advocating the sacrifice of self for society , organiza- tionally expressed through service in the RSS and by deference to RSS leaders . 265 When we look for reasons to explain the RSS's appeal in the 1940s ...
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... appeal confined to public issues . The appeal was , if anything , even stronger to the individual - what he was , what he aspired to be . The atmosphere of purity and integrity was a standing invitation to self - improvement according ...
... appeal confined to public issues . The appeal was , if anything , even stronger to the individual - what he was , what he aspired to be . The atmosphere of purity and integrity was a standing invitation to self - improvement according ...
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... appeal to the masses and the decline of ' vote banks ' Until the very end of the 1960s , all parties cultivated the active support of those notables who had a personal power base , as a means of entrenching the party in a given area ...
... appeal to the masses and the decline of ' vote banks ' Until the very end of the 1960s , all parties cultivated the active support of those notables who had a personal power base , as a means of entrenching the party in a given area ...
Contents
THREE HINDU NATIONALIST STRATEGIES | 11 |
A special kind of racism | 50 |
The primacy of social organism | 58 |
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