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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"BJP"”.
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Overseas friends of the BJP, the web, and the power of the state in the diaspora
In this examination of the web presence of OFBJP.org, I show first how Overseas Friends of BJP fit into expanded definitions and conceptions of nationalism. The modern nation-state is reaching out beyond its territorial boundaries, bringing in migrants in the diaspora and reorienting their gaze …
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"When the saints go marching in" : sadhus in democratic politics in late 20th century India
… political party, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). As a conservative Hindu nationalist party, the BJP allied with many sadhus, came to power at the center and in many states, breaking the monopoly that the relatively secular Congress party had held for more than four decades. The sadhus and …
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Hindu nationalism, electoral politics, and the rise of the Bharatiya Janata party in India
… examines the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its remarkable success in the 1989 and 1991 elections in India, to the point where it has become the leading opposition party in India's national parliament. The BJP's powerful "Hindutva" ideology, based on the idea of a Hindu nation, has …
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The counterinsurgency policies of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party of India and the Naxalite insurgency
… nationalist party (Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP) came to power with the promise of aggressively dealing with the Naxalites. This thesis examines the BJP's counterinsurgency policies and practice in comparison to its election rhetoric. Since 2014, the BJP has implemented a holistic and …
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Quantifying Agenda Setting Effects on Twitter and Digital Media
… favorable to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to the Trending Topics pages. While the astroturfed hashtags did reach \textit{trending} status, I find little evidence that the coordinated tweets were popular. The highly retweeted tweets within the hashtag come from users outside of the …
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The Nuclear and Ballistic Missile Programs of India
… of the pro-nuclear Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). On the other hand, there is continued international pressure for India to renounce the nuclear weapons option and sign the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). These new factors reduce the likelihood of India …
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Chasing Tickets: Party Politics, Corruption and Municipal Elections, New Delhi
… account of the Bharatiya Janata Party (the BJP) and its party members in the city of New Delhi where they compete for election tickets in the municipal election of 2017. By exploring the inner political world of the party and the race for election tickets in the organisation’s complex and …
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Sedition, Equality, Nature, and Love: Anti-colonialism in the Literary Corpus of Kazi Nazrul Islam, 1900-1930
… political group, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in its turn, crowned Nazrul an apostle of secularism to garner electoral support from Dalit and Muslim communities. These recurring tensions and the impact of state contestations make his prolific legacy fall prey to nationalist appropriations, …
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Three Essays on Development and the Political Economy of South Asia
… elections, the leader of the Hindu-nationalist BJP political party toured northern India on a "pilgrimage" to the city of Ayodhya, holding numerous rallies along the way to promote the construction of a Hindu temple there. Causal identification of the campaign's effects comes through the …