Presenting the Past Anxious History and Ancient Future in Hindutva India
(^28) "Presenting" the Past had no alternative but to become a multireligious state, and yet others pleaded for a secular state. ...
Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" 29 the British colonization was a boon to India, as British administration an ...
30 "Presenting" the Past portrayed it as an idealist venture in which the Indian elite led the peo- ple from subjugation to free ...
Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" 31 races, and Brahmin domination.^58 The Hindu communal historians wor- shipp ...
32 "Presenting" the Past stantly converging towards a single goal—the defeat and dispersal of the Muslim mlechha raj."^66 Goel l ...
Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" 33 than in British India."^73 Thus the colonial divide-and-rule theory has be ...
34 "Presenting" the Past the Divine Mother—the Hindu Nation." This "worship from an unde- serving child of Her Own" begins with ...
Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" 35 Mixing religiosity, historicity, and the self-interest in perpetuating the ...
36 "Presenting" the Past the Mahabharat, Harshwardhan, Pulakeshi, and Shivaji. He concludes authoritatively, "No, it is not thes ...
Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" 37 Thus Muslim, the most important enemy of the Hindutva national con- scious ...
38 "Presenting" the Past try) to learn their duties (race, caste) "at the holy feet of the 'Eldest born' Brahmans of this land." ...
Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" 39 appropriate the cultural symbolisms and imageries and even the politi- cal ...
40 "Presenting" the Past nationalists elevated it to the status of a goddess, and nationalism became their religion. Thus both t ...
Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" 41 William E. Connolly, Identity/Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Poli ...
(^42) "Presenting" the Past Jayaprakash Narayan, "The Concept of Nationhood," Minority Forum (April 1972), p. 6. Later in his p ...
Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" 43 J. A. Naik, "Have the Hindus Lost Their Sense of History?" Organiser, 17 ...
44 "Presenting" the Past Vishva Hindu Parishad, History versus Casuistry (New Delhi: Voice of India, 1991), p. v. A.A.K. Soze, ...
CHAPTER 2 Ramayana: Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History Although the Ramayana has been traditionally treated as a cultu ...
46 "Presenting" the Past If a comprehensive survey of the globe were to be made, it would be found that in almost every quarter ...
Ramayana: Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History 47 Strauss and Gadamer take myth "as a serious social phenomenon which re ...
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