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Rezension zu: V. Bhargav: Being Hindu
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav’s first book provides a comprehensive analysis of Lala Lajpat Rai’s political thought from his first major foray into Indian nationalist politics in 1888 to his death in 1928. Eschewing a monolithic reading of Rai as a “Hindu nationalist”, “majoritarian”, or “rigid secularist”, Bhargav successfully pushes back against such a “hard boundary” (p. xxviii) and much of the myth-making prevalent in India’s current political environment.
Religious-national identity, civilisational revival: Hindutva and Zionism are ideological cousins
The results are in for India’s general election. The country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has won enough seats to stay in charge for a third consecutive term. But his Bharatiya Janata Party has suffered big setbacks and is gearing up for coalition talks having failed to win an outright majority for the first time in 10 years. The BJP is premised on Hindutva, a Hindu nationalist ideology.
Hindu nationalism and Zionism in exclusionary lockstep
The results are in for India’s general election. The country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has won enough seats to stay in charge for a third consecutive term. But his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suffered big setbacks and is gearing up for coalition talks having failed to win an outright majority for the first time in ten years. The BJP is premised on Hindutva, a Hindu nationalist ideology.
India: why Hindu nationalism and Zionism are ideological cousins
By Vikram Visana, Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Leicester The results are in for India’s general election. The country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has won enough seats to stay in charge for a third consecutive term. But his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suffered big setbacks, and is gearing up for coalition talks having failed to win an outright majority for the first time in ten years. The BJP is premised on Hindutva, a Hindu nationalist ideology.
India: why Hindu nationalism and Zionism are ideological cousins Original
The results are in for India’s general election. The country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has won enough seats to stay in charge for a third consecutive term. But his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suffered big setbacks, and is gearing up for coalition talks having failed to win an outright majority for the first time in ten years. The BJP is premised on Hindutva, a Hindu nationalist ideology.
NEIGHBOURS: MODI’S CHOICE
Pronouncing the fulfilment of “the dream that many have cherished for years”, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a new Hindu temple at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh in the north of the country. It is built on the site of a mosque that was destroyed by Hindu nationalists more than 30 years ago.
Modi's political motives behind Ayodhya Hindu temple consecration
India’s prime minister Narendra Modi this week turned the consecration of the controversial Hindu Ayodhya temple into a massive national event. He invited, 8,000 VIPs including Bollywood stars, Hindu religious leaders, politicians and diplomats. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims also made their way to the town. Vikram Visana argues that the inauguration of the temple has little to do with Hindu religious doctrine.
In opening a Hindu temple on the site of a former mosque, Narendra Modi is following an old Hindu nationalist ploy
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In opening a Hindu temple on the site of a former mosque, Narendra Modi is following an old Hindu nationalist ploy
Pronouncing the fulfilment of “the dream that many have cherished for years”, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a new Hindu temple at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh in the north of the country. It is built on the site of a mosque that was destroyed by Hindu nationalists more than 30 years ago.
Uncivil Liberalism
‘This important book brings to us a new Dadabhai Naoroji by taking him out of the confining narrative of economic nationalism and showing him as a global figure who redefined liberalism by putting the question of labour and labour rights at its very heart.
Nazism and Hindu Nationalism
Mention ‘Nazism’ and ‘Hinduism’ together and you may think of swastikas. We know that Nazi symbolism drew on various racist European anthropologies. Here, a mythical fair-skinned “Aryan” race subjugated India. In a socially-Darwinist spirit, they used religion as a political tool to establish a caste system which integrated the local population but maintained racial segregation.
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