Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Revisiting History and Society: Understanding the Impact of British Era Policies in Shaping Present-Day Hindu Right-Wing Ideology
J Deshmukh, M Favaz - Interdisciplinary Reflections on South Asian Transitions …, 2023
This chapter aims to highlight three policies of the British that led to the death of a united India and eventually led to resulting communal disharmony in present-day India. The policies—Divide and Rule, Partition of Bengal, and the Indian Councils …
Understanding the Triumph of Hindutva and Its Social Contract in India
BS Nayak - Interdisciplinary Reflections on South Asian Transitions …, 2023
… of Hindutva project and its political implications for the state, society, culture and economy in India. The triumph of Hindutva project in India is a product of consistent propaganda based on fear to domesticate the masses in the name of nationalism …
Hindutva and Secularism
E Beltramini - Interdisciplinary Reflections on South Asian Transitions …, 2023
… , Hindutva raises the question of the colonial roots of secularism. The fight around secularism is not merely conceptual, rather a crucial element in Hindutva’… In the words of Vinayak Domodar Savarkar, who coined the term, “Hindutva embraces all …
India: Hindu Civilizational Populism
RMA Saleem - Civilizational Populism in Democratic Nation-States, 2023
… MS Golwalkar, the second head of the RSS and one of the most important ideologues of Hindutva, in his book We or Our Nationhood Defined (1939), takes a step further and clarifies the choices for those who are not Hindus (Muslims and …
Biopolitics, Nostalgia and the Making of Nations: Exploring the Nexus Between Race, Citizenship and Gender in India Following Covid-19
D Chakraborty - Interdisciplinary Reflections on South Asian Transitions …, 2023
… the dual technologies of biopolitics and necropolitics, heralds a new Hindutva world order by laying foundation to the Ram Mandir (temple) … In this section, using the concept of “restorative nostalgia” I will discuss how the Hindutva think tank and …
Hindu Nationalist Anxiety Around Its Feminine 'Own'and the 'Other'
D Banerjee, A Dasgupta - Interdisciplinary Reflections on South Asian Transitions …, 2023
… for right-wing Hindutva groups and BJP Footnote 2 ’s engagement with and resistance against them to further Hindutva politics. In what ways … We discuss how the Muslim feminine ‘other’ is selectively included and excluded in the right-wing …
DB Subedi and Alan Scott
C LEADERSHIP, L DEMOCRACY - The Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia …, 2023
… In summary, Modi mobilized Hindutva as a cultural resource to define a bounded ‘organic'political community—a community of fate from which, in a typically populist fashion, he drew his support. This facilitated Modi's direct and institutionally unmediated relationship …
Wither 'Personal'Law?
U Baxi - Social Change, 2023
… aspect is, however, independent of the claim that the Court consolidated a Hindutva identity. … Was not the judicial observation of ‘Hindutva as a way of life’ made during a campaign … The idea that the Supreme Court of India helped …
IDENTITY IN ASIA
H Brasted, I Ahmed - The Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia …, 2023
… and carried over to the national stage embodied the whole'repertoire of Hindutva populism'. Proclaiming the sacredness of cows and prohibiting their … Hindutva may have taken a back seat when he swept to power as Prime Minister in 2014 on …
CONTEMPORARY ASIA
DB Subedi, FKG Lim - The Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia …, 2023
Recent studies on religion and populism mostly focus on Western secular liberal democracies, with Christianity being a principal analytical focal point while non-Christian religions are excluded (Yilmaz & Morieson, 2022). In this chapter, we adopt a pan-Asian …
This book brings to focus one of the prominent 20th century Indian thinkers, Sri Aurobindo, by providing an overview of his philosophy on life and yoga, and by elucidating his thought in the context of contemporary society.
Reading Sri Aurobindo introduces each of these volumes through the perspectives of twenty-one contributors.
This book presents the first systematic critical exploration of the philosophical and political thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo, both pioneers of modern Indian thought.
Giant trees recklessly cut down along Crown Road! 60+ trees, meticulously planted in 2002 by Aurofuture as part of the visionary Master Plan were yesterday chainsawed to the ground by the ‘Auroville Town Development Council', headed by @AnupamaKundoo and @JayantiRavi
R.I.P beautiful crown road trees :( :(
This is what our beautiful road used to look like! Can you believe the blindness of the Auroville Foundation administration to pursue all this destruction in the name of 'developmemt'?
https://twitter.com/aurovilleunity/status/1743301777028485505?t=PjiV-nwliVSSvUbIVKZLOA&s=19
Clearing of #trees for #Auroville Crown Road project resumes amid protests by a section of residents
https://twitter.com/THPondy/status/1743104155169014183?t=PUbmhdlg2iK9dF5TEDT6kQ&s=19
