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Abhinav Bharat
Arya Samaj
Author_Chetan Bhatt
authoritarian movements analysis
Babri Masjid
Bajrang Dal
Bipinchandra Pal
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ethnic identity politics
Hindu Mahasabha
Hindu mass movements
Hindu Nation
Hindu nationalism
Hindu nationalist resurgence
Hindu Nationalist Thinking
Hindu Rashtra
Hindu Sangathan
Indus Valley Civilization
Lajpat Rai
minority rights discourse
National Socialism
political formations
Ram Temple
Rashtra Sevika Samiti
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
religious nationalism India
right-wing populism
RSS
secularism and citizenship
Shyamji Krishnavarma
Swami Shraddhanand
Swaraj Party
Tamil Nadu
VHP
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781859733486
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jan 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The rise of authoritarian Hindu mass movements and political formations in India since the early 1980s raises fundamental questions about the resurgence of chauvinistic ethnic, religious and nationalist movements in the late modern period. This book examines the history and ideologies of Hindu nationalism and Hindutva from the end of the last century to the present, and critically evaluates the social and political philosophies and writings of its main thinkers.Hindu nationalism is based on the claim that it is an indigenous product of the primordial and authentic ethnic and religious traditions of India. The book argues instead that these claims are based on relatively recent ideas, frequently related to western influences during the colonial period. These influences include eighteenth and nineteenth century European Romantic and Enlightenment rationalist ideas preoccupied with archaic primordialism, evolution, organicism, vitalism and race. As well as considering the ideological impact of National Socialism and Fascism on Hindu nationalism in the 1930s, the book also looks at how Aryanism continues to be promoted in unexpected forms in contemporary India. Using a wide range of historical and contemporary sources, the author considers the consequences of Hindu nationalist resurgence in the light of contemporary debates about minorities, secular citizenship, ethics and modernity.
Chetan Bhatt Senior Lecturer in Sociology,Goldsmiths College, University of London
