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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Hindu Nationalism"”.
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Hindu nationalism, electoral politics, and the rise of the Bharatiya Janata party in India
… India's national parliament. The BJP's powerful "Hindutva" ideology, based on the idea of a Hindu nation, has propelled the party to the forefront of Indian politics, and poses a major challenge to India's secular democracy. The central argument of this thesis is that by appealing to Hindu …
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The History, Ideology, and Organisation of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in the post-colonial India, 1948–1991
… the late 1940s to the apex organisation of the Hindu Nationalist movement with a dense network of branches, cadres, and subsidiaries by the 1990s. This thesis gives precedence to the Sangh’s dynamic and malleable character to elucidate its survival and expansion in these five decades, which goes …
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Queer life and moral policing in the time of Hindutva
… to be three artifacts constitutive of the Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) mission to make India a “Hindu” state. I suggest that The Transgender Persons (Protections of Rights) Act 2019, moral policing and the assassination of a journalist all (re)create and help extend Hindu nationalism. While …
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MODERN RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS OF COLONIAL SOUTH ASIA: THE ORIGINS OF REVIVAL AND REFORM
… movements such as Buddhist modernism and Hindu nationalism became powerful agents of resistance and change. These developments, shaped by the contrasting influences of Western cultural domination and the pervasiveness of preexisting social formations, proved to be an effective measure in …
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A Heavy Rain Has Fallen Upon My People: Sindhi Sufi Poetry Performance, Emotion, and Islamic Knowledge in Kachchh, Gujarat
… the polarizing effects that Islamic reform and Hindu nationalism have had on the region’s musical life since the 1970s. I animate debates concerning music’s permissibility in the Islamic tradition by documenting the ways in which Islamic reformists’ critiques of music’s morality have impacted …
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Abrogated identity : Muslim representation in Hindi popular cinema 1947-2000
… the two major Indian religious communities, Hindus and Muslims through an analysis of popular films. It identifies an imbalance in representations of Muslim life where few films show Hindus and Muslims as sharing social and cultural life or where Muslims are represented as modern subjects: an …
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Saintly Investments: Pilgrimage Development And Contemporary Hinduism In India
… the tomb of Gogaji (a deified warrior king with Hindu and Muslim genealogical ties), presided over by litigious Muslim, Brahman, and government priests; and at Gorakhtila, a politically influential temple of Gogaji's divine guru, the ascetic Gorakhnath, in the charge of monks from the Nath …
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Implanting of an Ideology: Television, Politics, and the Making of the Hindu Right in Contemporary India
… in many parts of the world, in India, right-wing Hindu nationalists have appeared as a powerful group, shaping the ideological discourse and successfully capturing state power under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership. This dissertation delineates the emergence of the Hindu Right in …
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Networked Social Movements: A Critical Interrogation of Pro and Anti-Immigration Twitter Discourse in India and the USA
… to discursively establish masculinist hindu-nationalism in the Indian context and white supremacism in the US context. Whereas, the pro-immigration movement discourses in both countries: highlighted women led sit-ins; claimed a fight for the “soul” of India and the USA; actively …
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Rethinking Vivekananda through Space and Territorialised Spirituality, c. 1880-1920
… approached Vivekananda as either a pioneer of Hindu nationalism or as the voice of a universalist calling for service to humanity. Such labelling neglects the fact that he predominantly navigated between those polarised identities, and overlooks the incongruities between his actions and his …
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Being Hindu in the American South: Hindu Nationalist Discourse in a Diaspora Community
… to a recent Pew poll approximately 97% of all Hindus live in the countries of India and Nepal. However, there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Hindus living in other parts of the world. Across the United States, Hindu temples are joining the religious landscape of the country. …
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The politics of representation in Indian media: implications of the portrayal of Hindus and minority groups
… expanding news television and the growing Hindutva (Hinduness) movement which espouses an exclusivist and majoritarian ideology, demanding a Hindu nation for Hindus. In its endeavor to understand this complex issue it focuses on India’s two national news networks – Aaj Tak in Hindi, the …
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As on a darkling plain: Searching out the critique of Hindu ethnicism in modern India
… of religious politics in India have described Hindu nationalism variously over the years: as fascist, fundamentalist, right-wing, jingoist, extremist, and ethnicist. The already large corpus of writing on the ideology and activities of the Hindu nationalists continues still to describe the …
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Representations of migrant and nation in selected works of Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie
… the rise of communalism in general and Hindu nationalism in particular, and the renaming of Bombay as Mumbai. My readings foreground the necessity of a close understanding of the historical and political transformations taking place within Bombay and India during the 1970s, 1980s and …
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Overseas friends of the BJP, the web, and the power of the state in the diaspora
… 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 back towards India. It is part of a larger strategy built around dominating cyberspace and …