Sentences with phrase «hindu nationalism»

The main binding force of India is the Hindu nationalism or Hindutva which originated during the British rule at the start of 19th century.

Such thinking leads to or supports things like far - right Hindu nationalism, for example, or absurd claims that epistemic violence is the same or worse (as Spivak once famously claimed) than actual violence, or harmful rejections of science, or the very essentialism denied by its proponents.

However, I can recommend a book: Meeru Nanda's «Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India.»

India's Hindu nationalism has been growing since the election of nationalist Narendra Modi to prime minister in 2014, and was highlighted by the election of nationalist president Ram Nath Kovind last summer.

This means that the state has become susceptible to the devices of Hindu nationalism; Hindutva has covertly and overtly gained a foothold in the everyday workings of the nation.

The ideological model of a monolithic and homogenized India, which fueled the Indian national movement and still fuels contemporary Hindu nationalism, is an extension of Western colonialism.

The disciplining right hand of Hindu nationalism: coercive mechanisms of Indian - Hindu integration

In the first part of this paper I inquire into the historical roots of Hindu nationalism that generated the ideology funding this ominous phenomenon.

Christian theology can tap into these and offer them up as resources for the community life of the nation - state as living alternatives to the vision of Hindu nationalism.

On the other hand, the disciplining left hand of Hindu nationalism also metes out punishment to those who rebuff its prescriptive guidance.

At the same time the biggest beneficiaries of globalization find shelter in such aggressive ideologies as Hindu nationalism.

The fact that Christianity was becoming an attractive option for Dalits and Adivasis must have been threatening to the forces of Hindu nationalism.

Nothing can be more alarming than the resurgence of the Hindu nationalism today, but it is hardly unexpected since it is the contextual manifestation of the colonialism and Indian nationalism which I have just traced.

Historically, the emergence of Hindu nationalism with its founding credo of Hindutva must be seen within the context of colonialism.

Aware that the party couldn't achieve a parliamentary majority without low - caste votes, its leaders were at pains throughout their anti-Muslim campaigns to present Hindu nationalism to low - caste Hindus as an egalitarian ideology.

Let us now outline two general strands of Hindu nationalism, or Hindutva.

The point being asserted has to do with the tendency in contemporary Hindu nationalism through the various units of the Sangh Parivad (the Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP], the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh [RSS], the Vishwa Hindu Parishad [VHP], Bajrang Dal [BD] and the Shiv Sena party [SS]-RRB- to further the process of taming all heterogeneous and plural forms to fit into the unitary construction of a religiously synthesized India, while defining the core of this disciplined pan-Indian identity in Hindu (specifically Brahmanic) terms.

Hindu nationalism, which is alive and well in India today, is concertedly engaged in the assignment of absorbing minorities into its ideology, Driven by the ideology of Hindutva — a term coined by V. D. Sarvarkar10 which has always advocated a comprehensive project involving the coming together of culture, society, and politics, it seeks to fuse all the distinct particularities and differences of religious minorities (Muslims and Christians) and ethnocultural minorities (Dalits and Adivasis) into its Brahmanic construction of an Indian nation.

The move was seen by many as another step toward Hindu nationalism since 2014.

Although they want to preserve a «secular state» in the face of Hindu nationalism and Islamic separatism (or Sikh independence), they only halfheartedly support those parties that most energetically promote secularism.

But given the party's platform of Hindu nationalism and association with religious violence, it's surprising that many Christians aren't concerned about his election.

The move was seen by many as another step toward Hindu nationalism since 2014, when the country elected as its prime minister Narendra Modi — the only person once banned by the United States because of alleged religious freedom violations.

Nehru's characterization of the Hindutva of the RSS assumes that Hindu Nationalism is one way of relating itself to the modern western religion cum secular impact on India.

It is a member of the RSS family of organisations.The ideology of the organisation is based on Hindutva (Hindu nationalism),

The politics of Hindu nationalism has erupted into social intimidation and violence on numerous occasions, and the Christian communities we visited expect more persecution in coming years.

But as I've learned on a recent study trip to India, these freedoms are threatened by the rising menace of Hindu nationalism and its communalist ideology.

Hindu nationalism took institutional form in the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or National Volunteer Society).

Following this trauma, Hindu nationalism, not surprisingly, fell into public disfavor as India's constitutional secularism began to take root.

Muslim nationalism, he said, was no better than Hindu nationalism because its values, outlook, and program were drawn from the Western concept of nationalism and had nothing to do with the international creed of Islam.

Open Doors noted that India rose to its highest rank ever, No. 15, amid the continued rise of Hindu nationalism.

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C.F.Andrews and S.K.Rudra of St.Stephens College Delhi took the lead in re-articulating the Christian identify in higher education in relation to the spiritual and political awakening of the Indian people under the auspices of Hindu religious renaissance and the political ideology of Indian nationalism.

The idea of Secular Nationalism and Secular State were the creation of cooperation between Gandhi's reformed religion and Nehru's liberal humanist secularism and they succeeded to establish itself in India against the idea of Hindu and Muslim communalism.

This led Golwalker to characterise those «who advocated Hindu - Muslim unity as necessary to fight for swaraj» as the perpetrators of the «greatest treason in our society» (Yogendra Sikand «Religion and Religious Nationalism» in The Frontier 9.5.92).

Muslims suspicious that the secular nationalism of the Congress was a disguise for Hindu majoritarian rule demanded and eventually received a separate state, Pakistan.

What I want to stress is the tendency in nationalism to tame all heterogeneous and plural forms so they fit into the unitary construction of a religiously - synthesized India, and how the core of this disciplined pan-Indian identity is defined in Hindu (specifically Brahminic) terms.

Just as with Orientalism, nationalism took over the project of construing India as a unitary and homogeneous entity which was religiously one, and uncovered the fact that the essence of this religiousness was Hindu.

In a recent reconstructive essay on Hinduism, Sudhanshu Ranade suggests a connection between the not - so - noble function of «the political branch of Hinduism» in Vedic times, and «the trap the BJP is leading us into today».9 This involves the task of consolidating a hierarchically - ordered socio - political structure for Hindu society reflecting true religious Dhanna and controlling these classes / castes in order «to keep people in their place [so as] to keep them from getting above themselves».10 Perhaps this is the reason that nationalism, in its Orientalist form, is so pervasive in contemporary India.