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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Hindutva"”.
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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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The UK's Indian Diaspora: Reflections of Hindutva Ideology Online and Offline
… and WhatsApp to spread and mobilise for the Hindutva cause. The objectives of the proposed research are to explore themes and contextualise diaspora politics from the lens the Indian diaspora, and to understand how digital media spaces are used by both the political party and its diaspora …
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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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After the Demolition: Constructing the Communal Riots of 1992--1993 in the Indian Media
… nationalism"" rather than a rabid Hindutva ideology."
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Indian Political Thought and Germany's Fascism, ca. 1918-1950
… Volk state. Next, I uncover how the ‘father’ of Hindutva, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966), conceptualised a Hindu ‘race’ as grounded in impurity, miscegenation, and women. Savarkar problematised the Hindus’ historical loss of the power of caste to transform outsiders into blood-relations. …
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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
This thesis explores the postcolonial history of the Sangh that marked its ascendancy from a marginal paramilitary organisation in 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 …
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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 …