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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... religious mobilisation of the RSS and its affiliates was subjected to two series of constraints which hampered its effectiveness : the first were external and concerned the political context , and the second were internal and concerned ...
... religious mobilisation of the RSS and its affiliates was subjected to two series of constraints which hampered its effectiveness : the first were external and concerned the political context , and the second were internal and concerned ...
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... religious figures in question were becoming increasingly ideologically minded . 85 To sum up , the early 1980s were marked by the rallying of a growing number of religious leaders around VHP structures which had been established in ...
... religious figures in question were becoming increasingly ideologically minded . 85 To sum up , the early 1980s were marked by the rallying of a growing number of religious leaders around VHP structures which had been established in ...
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... religious themes for political purposes , usually by taking part in Ram Shila Pujans . In the contest for Khajuraho , for example , the BJP candidate , Uma Bharti , was presented to the voters as a sadhvi ( a women who has renounced the ...
... religious themes for political purposes , usually by taking part in Ram Shila Pujans . In the contest for Khajuraho , for example , the BJP candidate , Uma Bharti , was presented to the voters as a sadhvi ( a women who has renounced the ...
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THREE HINDU NATIONALIST STRATEGIES | 11 |
A special kind of racism | 50 |
The primacy of social organism | 58 |
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