The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

However, even the anti-free marketeers could find some disagreement with Nehruvian socialism, because the latter concentrated on ...

opposition. When the Emergency ended and she boldly decided to go to the people on her record in the Emergency, a new political ...

through a mobilization of Hindus for a religiocultural cause. From now on, political power would come only through unique Hindu ...

organized than it had previously been. In 1981, the conversion of low-caste Hindus to Islam in the Tamil village of Meenakshipur ...

ing parliamentary support from outside. Calculations over parliamentary major- ity alone kept the Janata Dal in its relationship ...

already existent manifestation of Hindu nationalism. This process was helped, indirectly and largely unwittingly, by the simplis ...

of alien rule over a native Hindu land, to (re)build a temple on the site was to reclaim history itself for Hinduism. This campa ...

violence and death, however, a more abstract if extremely grave issue was at stake: the status of the Indian polity as one in wh ...

specifically Hindu conceptual categories regarding the Indian state, a manifesto that permitted conventional political calculati ...

based confrontational ideology, as on Ayodhya, would have nowhere else to go, while the chance of increasing votes in a wider co ...

made possible through the decision of Hindus. This was clear in their portrayal of the tests in religious-ideological terms, cha ...

basket and concentrated on an ostensibly Vajpayee-led reasonableness and a noncommunal plan of action. The second success of the ...

scene. This striking repudiation of Hindu nationalist ideology was followed by a series of other examples: in negotiations with ...

against the very forces unleashed – uncontrollably – by mobilization, forces for which the attainment of democratic power was ir ...

extent that the growth of a sense of a common Hindu identity was long the aim of the RSS, the very organizational fact of such a ...

Hasan, M. 1993. “Competing Symbols and Shared Codes: Inter-community Relations in Modern India,” in S. Gopal, ed., Anatomy of a ...

CHAPTER 26 The Goddess and the Nation: Subterfuges of Antiquity, the Cunning of Modernity Sumathi Ramaswamy The “fragile social ...

are but natural expressions of the devotion to the mother-figure that has been deemed a timeless and universal ingredient of Hin ...

Tamil (teyvattamil ̄ ). In tandem with this movement (and occasionally at cross purposes with it) were concerted efforts to esta ...

queen (araci), to be honored and worshipped very much in the manner that divinities and sovereigns are in this culture. From the ...