Sentences with phrase «hindu nationalist»

The rioters belonged to the Sambhaji Brigade, a right - wing Hindu nationalist organization.

But its findings could also solidify or undermine the current Hindu nationalist coalition government.

He is considered one of the hard - liners in Bharatiya Janata Party, the Hindu nationalist party that captured a plurality of seats in this month's general election.

In India, the Hindu nationalist party of PM Modi fans the flames of anti-Muslim prejudice.

It is not the first attack on Christians in recent times in the country - there has been an escalation of violence since the election of the Hindu Nationalist party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (the BJP, «Indian People's Party») in 2014.

«The Hindu nationalist forces want to spread a feeling of suspicion towards Christians,» he added.

Thus the Hindu nationalist is someone who, through fostering the myth of internal and external threat to national stability and security, places maximum moral value on affirming that India's core consists of the eternal Hindu tenets (loyalty) and defending these with the conviction and zeal of patriotic duty to the country (attachment).

There are ongoing efforts of various Hindu nationalist organizations to «reconvert» Dalits and Adivasis from non-Indian religions (Christianity and Islam) back to their original Hindu fold.

In 1992, the Hindu nationalist BJP (Indian People's Party) gave early warning of its intentions when its members demolished the sixteenth - century Babri Mosque in North India, leading to the deaths of thousands in Hindu - Muslim riots across the country.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, a Hindu nationalist party known for supporting extremists, lost power after nine years of unchallenged rule.

However, as others champion his victory, India's Christian minority — the majority of whom are Dalits themselves — know that a Hindu nationalist politician from the Dalit caste is still a Hindu nationalist politician.

Hindu nationalist and Islamic fundamentalist groups are refurbishing temples and mosques and developing study groups and «shock troops» (as the Indian Express calls them) that threaten non-Hindus (or, in other areas, non-Muslims) in ways not far removed from KKK tactics.

The charity said because of the legal ambiguity, the laws have been abused by radical Hindu nationalist groups to «harass and intimidate Christians while claiming to be under the auspices of state law.»

This summer, India elected another Hindu nationalist as president.

In fact, despite the undisguised Hindu nationalist bent of the government, Pew rates India's social hostilities against religion as more intense than government restrictions.

«With the new freedoms and authority that Hindu nationalist groups are able to exhibit in India, one can only assume this situation will worsen and multiply.

On January 30, 1948, the Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi with three bullets fired at point - blank range.

Bremmer and Kupchan worry that in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist rhetoric before elections next year «could give cover to radicalized elements of society that want to target Muslims and lower - caste Hindus.»

Its members do not vote but they offer substantial donations for political and social causes linked to Modi's Hindu nationalist party and its affiliates, collectively termed the Sangh Parivar.

Hindu nationalists see that empire as a cruel foreign yoke that sullied the unique and heroic character of Indian identity and culture.

Although the Indian constitution guarantees that religious groups may propagate their faith, Hindu nationalists claim that many Christian organizations engage in coercive proselytism, especially among the Dalit classes, in a calculated «anti-India» effort to pollute national identity.

Release International said since Hindu nationalists gained power in India three years ago, violence against Christians has escalated.

(UPDATED) Hindu nationalists refuse to back down on Christian and Muslim re-conversions, dub India a «Hindu nation.»

Christianity Today circled India from north to south and back again for two weeks in order to witness the innovative and successful mission efforts of Indian evangelicals — this, despite rising persecution from Hindu nationalists.

Having grown up in the disproportionately Christian state of Kerala in southern India and studied at a church - run school, Narayanan condemned the Hindu nationalists thought to be responsible for violence against Muslims and resisted efforts to shift the secular education system.

Hindu nationalists have put increasing pressure on Christians in India since the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014.

In public statements Hindu nationalists tried to make their campaign against Muslims seem part of the US - led war on terror, and, as Nussbaum writes, «the current world atmosphere, and especially the indiscriminate use of the terrorism card by the United · States, have made it easier for them to use this ploy.»

This began to change during the rule of the Hindu nationalists, who proved themselves as adept in working with big businessmen as in holding on to its older constituency of small merchants and readers.

On the other hand, the assertion of nationhood demanded the projection of a distance from Europe... Thus, the Hindu nationalists claimed that the Vedic texts and ancient history had not only expressed India as a nation but had also displayed attributes that colonialism defined as exclusively European.6

This may have been helpful in galvanizing all communities to oppose colonial rule and achieve together Indian independence, but this same unitary and homogenizing ideology has been quite destructive in the hands of present - day Hindu nationalists.

Christian mission — however it is understood and whatever form it may take — must not adopt the ideology of the colonialists, as the Hindu nationalists have done.

Under the title «The Church Goes Political in India,» an RSS author expresses the real fears of the Hindu nationalists.

It was not, it was done illegally by kar sevaks or Hindu nationalists.

Mr.... Hindu nationalists — «The government,» he said, «wants Muslims to live in Read More...

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The Babri - mosque affair, the Gujarat riots, and the murders in Orissa are but three well - documented cases of Hindu - nationalist violence directed against Muslims and Christians.

In India, Hindu extremists have attacked Christian communities (as well as Muslims); in Burma and Sri Lanka, Buddhist nationalists have launched aggressive anti-Christian campaigns; and Communism's ruthless war against followers of Christ» in Cuba, Vietnam, China, and North Korea» is well - known.

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.

The self styled Hindu (or Hindutva) nationalists seem to me to model themselves on American racist organisations.