Presenting the Past Anxious History and Ancient Future in Hindutva India

88 "Presenting" the Past unarmed people and slaughtering them along with their wives and chil- dren is the "violence of cowards. ...

Ramarajya: Envisioning the Future and Entrenching the Past 89 adhered to. The element of myth (defined as ambiguity) in his spee ...

90 "Presenting" the Past level, there was the "real" India, to be found in the three pillars of the "self-regulating" Indian soc ...

Ramarajya: Envisioning the Future and Entrenching the Past 91 In the state of Rajasthan, attempts were made to organize the prin ...

92 "Presenting" the Past became quite insignificant in the 1962 elections, with only three seats and 2 percent of the vote. One ...

Ramarajya: Envisioning the Future and Entrenching the Past 93 the derailment of all that inspired the freedom movement—the eleva ...

94 "Presenting'' the Past Maharashtra, insisted on worshipping Ram, spreading the message of Ram through institutions, and build ...

Ramarajya: Envisioning the Future and Entrenching the Past 95 counted for. The demolition gathering of the karsevaks in December ...

96 "Presenting" the Past taken to be an undifferentiated, unchanging continuation of Ram Rajya." This myth of medieval "Muslim t ...

Ramarajya: Envisioning the Future and Entrenching the Past 97 destroyed the Jagannatha temple at Puri as the finale of a campaig ...

98 "Presenting" the Past Samudragupta in 280 B.C.E. and finished by Chandragupta II in 268 B.C.E. Even the Taj Mahal is said to ...

Ramarajya: Envisioning the Future and Entrenching the Past 99 destroyed again in the early sixteenth century by Sikandar Lodi. B ...

(^100) "Presenting" the Past Ramarajya around the Babri Masjid with fear and hatred, the Hindutva elements effectively rallied i ...

Ramarajya: Envisioning the Future and Entrenching the Past 101 ber 2,1990, some 26 karsevaks were killed in police firing. They ...

102 "Presenting" the Past Nahin; Bolo Jai Sri Ram" (Not hello; say Jai Sri Ram). The Hindutva mes- sage was hammered home throug ...

Ramarajya: Envisioning the Future and Entrenching the Past 103 similar newspapers and magazines in various regional languages ha ...

104 "Presenting" the Past Richard Dawson and Kenneth Prewitt, Political Socialization (Boston: Little, Brown, 1969), pp. 15-24. ...

Ramarajya: Envisioning the Future and Entrenching the Past 105 Bhikhu Parekh, Gandhi's Political Philosophy: A Critical Examina ...

106 "Presenting" the Past Answers to Zamindars on July 25,1934. CWMG, lviii (May 18-September 15,1934), p. 248. Speech at Missi ...

Ramarajya: Envisioning the Future and Entrenching the Past 107 Horst Hartmann, Political Parties in India (Meerut, India: Meena ...