Awakening Bharat Mata: the political beliefs of the Indian right
β Scribed by Bharatiya Janata Party.;Dasgupta, Swapan
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House India Private Limited
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 255 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- India,India.
- ISBN
- 935305530X
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β¦ Synopsis
The rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was much more than an ordinary electoral phenomenon: it brought to the fore two contrasting views of nationhood: between those who saw modern India in terms of secular republicanism and on the other hand were those who sought to blend technological modernity with the country's Hindu inheritance. The Right's ascendancy and the debates that accompanied it, anticipated many of the concerns that find reflection today in the United States and Europe.
The phenomenon of Hindu nationalism was also a profound intellectual challenge to the loose Left-liberal consensus that had prevailed in India since Jawaharlal Nehru became Prime Minister in 1947. The idea of Hindutva and the political character of the BJP have been closely scrutinised by scholars, and the impulse has been to view India's Right-wing politics as either a variant of fascism or merely a collection of sectarian prejudices.
In fact, the inspiration for the Right in India has...
β¦ Subjects
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