Presenting the Past Anxious History and Ancient Future in Hindutva India

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inspired spiritual quest is not politically motivated communalism. The
Indian civil society, to some extent, lives this philosophy.


NOTES



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  3. Adam Seligman, The Idea of Civil Society (New York: Free Press, 1992), p. 3.

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  6. Arendt, The Human Condition, pp. 33,28.

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  8. New York Times, 8 December 1989.

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  15. M.K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule (Ahmedabad, India: Navaji-
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  16. Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought, pp. 100-101,110.

  17. T. K. John, "Theology of Liberation and Gandhian Praxis: A Social Spiritual-
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  18. Firoz Bakht Ahmed, "The Mahatma and the Muse," Hindu, 28 January



  19. Quoted in Satish K. Arora and Harold D. Lasswell, Political Communication:
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  20. Quoted in ibid., pp. 38-39.

  21. Arendt, The Human Condition, pp. 320-25.

  22. Center for South Asian Studies Newsletter (University of Hawai'i-Manoa) 7,
    no. 3 (1991), pp. 10-11.

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