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Secularism in the shadow of Hindutva: Religion and the 2019 and 2024 Indian general elections [PDF]

Srpska Politička Misao
This 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, Sadia Mahmood Falki, Asma Sana Bilal   +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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Is BJP Conservative?

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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Killing for the Hindu Nation

, 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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The Revolt of the Upper Castes

Caste, 2020
This article argues that the recent rise of Hindu nationalism in India can be seen as a revolt of the upper castes against the egalitarian demands of democracy.
Jean Drèze
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Globalization and the Conduct of Hindu Radicalism in Authority [PDF]

Journal of World Sociopolitical Studies, 2023
Following the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, the sociopolitical rivalry between Hindu religious nationalists and secular democratic nationalists that arose during the independence struggles and whose intolerance precipitated the conflict ...
Heshmat Sadat Moinifar, Seyed Mostafa Mostafavi   +1 more
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