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Hindutva: Formative Assertions
Author(s) -
Reddy Deepa S.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
religion compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.113
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1749-8171
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00290.x
Subject(s) - hindutva , hinduism , ideology , politics , gender studies , nationalism , independence (probability theory) , sociology , religious studies , aesthetics , political science , epistemology , philosophy , law , mathematics , statistics
This article is the first of three in a series surveying research on Hindutva (Hindu nationalism or political hinduism), focusing on seminal articulations that set the stage for later debates, and define the directions of later politics. I review accounts of hindutva’s ideological origins, from the pre‐independence racialist articulations to the humanist emphases of post‐independence years, to the strident culturalism of the 1990s. ‘Hindutva’ is formed through these successive phases of ideological assertion, as much as it precipitates and participates in a wider culture of identitarian assertions. The second essay of three focuses on prominent rhetorical constructions deployed to address hindutva polemically, and the third on hinduva as praxis.