1999
DOI: 10.1177/026272809901900204
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Evaluating Marxist and Post-Modernist Responses To Hindu Nationalism During the Eighties and Nineties

Abstract: Over the past two decades, journalists, legal analysts and scholars of India have devoted much attention to the political advances of the 'pro-Hindu' Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the growth of Hindu nationalist sentiments among the nation's burgeoning urban middle class. This decade alone has reaped a harvest of more than 70 books addressing the issue of the 'secular state' in India, prompted, no doubt, by the clamour of Hindutva. Extensive print media coverage of events leading to and following the demoli… Show more

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“…Its establishment signified the early dynamic phase in the emergence of Hindu nationalism. Hindu nationalism attests Hindu cultural dominance and nationalist mobilization and majoritarianism in the context of liberal development (Mallampalli, 1999). In time, the RSS set up a series of front organizations known as the Sangh Parivar, the predominant one being the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, established in 1964 (Chatterji, 2004;Zavos, 2000).…”
Section: Gendered and Hindu Nationalist Tonesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Its establishment signified the early dynamic phase in the emergence of Hindu nationalism. Hindu nationalism attests Hindu cultural dominance and nationalist mobilization and majoritarianism in the context of liberal development (Mallampalli, 1999). In time, the RSS set up a series of front organizations known as the Sangh Parivar, the predominant one being the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, established in 1964 (Chatterji, 2004;Zavos, 2000).…”
Section: Gendered and Hindu Nationalist Tonesmentioning
confidence: 99%