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Hindu Nationalism and Rising Anti-Islamism in India
Medya ve Din Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 The weakening of the secular tradition, which has been influential in Indian political life since its inception, and the political rise of the Hindu right culminated in the overwhelming mandate of the Hindu nationalist BJP led by Narendra Modi in the ...
Fatma Sarıaslan
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Emerging Hindu Rashtra and Its Impact on Indian Muslims
Religions, 2021 This article examines the impact of the gradual Hindutvaization of Indian culture and politics on Indian Muslims. The article contrasts the status of Muslims in the still secular, pluralistic, and democratic constitution of India with the rather ...
M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Rifat Binte Lutful
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Secularism in the shadow of Hindutva: Religion and the 2019 and 2024 Indian general elections [PDF]
Srpska Politička MisaoThis study explores the impact of Hindu nationalism on the concept of secularism in India, with a particular focus on the general elections held in 2019 and 2024.
Đogatović Veljko M.
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Human rights and secularism in conflict with Hindutva: the Water controversy
Antropologia Portuguesa, 2023 This article analyses tension between human rights (including secularism) and Hindutva, the Hindu nationalists’ discourse. Particular focus is put on women’s rights and the right to freedom of expression and dissent in India using the film Water and the
Amit Singh
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TRANSFORMATION OF INDIAN NATIONALISM AND ‘OTHERIZATION’ OF MUSLIMS IN INDIA
Margalla Papers, 2021 India has altered its military stratagem under the Modi government from nuclear deterrence to offensive defence. The constant use of offensive defence in the milieu of deliberate political aggression against Pakistan and victimization of the Muslim ...
Aisha Shahzad +2 more
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The Transgender Nation and its Margins: The Many Lives of the Law
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2019 In a 2014 judgment, the Supreme Court of India affirmed the right of every Indian citizen to choose their gender identity regardless of gender affirmation surgery.
Sayan Bhattacharya
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Politeja, 2019 This article will consider whether the Bharatiya Janata Party (the BJP), the party currently ruling India, may be considered conservative. The author will use Swapan Dasgupta’s 2015 lecture on conservatism as a starting point for further deliberations ...
Krzysztof Iwanek
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Hindutva’s Dangerous Rewriting of History
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2020 Hindu nationalists are heavily invested in rewriting Indian history to advance their modern and unrepentantly hateful political agenda. Hindu nationalism or Hindutva is a political ideology that advocates Hindu supremacy, specifically over Muslims who ...
Audrey Truschke
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Politicizzazione del sacro e identità in Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950)
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2020 The present contribution analyzes the political thought of philosopher and revolutionary Aurobindo Ghose in the wider scenario of Indian nationalism, highlighting the peculiar hermeneutics of hindū philosophical and religious tradition that he expressed ...
Marco Castagnetto
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, 2023 What drives the increasingly violent impulses of Hindu nationalism in India? This chapter emphasizes the abyss between, on the one hand, its anxieties about Hindu minoritization and territorial dismemberment and, on the other, its retrotopian visions about revitalizing a purported Hindu golden age.
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