Pranab Mukherjee at RSS HQ LIVE: Indian Nationalism is Not One Nation, Language, Religion, Says Former Prez
6 years, 9 months ago

Pranab Mukherjee at RSS HQ LIVE: Indian Nationalism is Not One Nation, Language, Religion, Says Former Prez

News 18  

Pranab Mukherjee addressed RSS cadres at the outfit’s headquarters in Nagpur, explaining to them the meaning of nationalism and patriotism. “Any attempt at defining our nationhood in terms of dogmas and identities of religion, region, hatred and intolerance will only lead to dilution of our national identity,” he said. India’s national identity emerged from a long-drawn process of confluence and co-existence, he said, adding that the concept of modern India was not bound by race or religion. Mukherjee also made an impromptu stop at Sangh founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar’s birth place in the evening.

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Babasaheb Ambedkar Would Have Called Out Hypocrisy of Both BJP & Opposition
3 months, 1 week ago

Babasaheb Ambedkar Would Have Called Out Hypocrisy of Both BJP & Opposition

The Quint  

“I am of opinion that in believing that we are a nation, we are cherishing a great delusion. For then only we shall realise the necessity of becoming a nation and seriously think of ways and means of realising the goal.” The other dire prediction by Ambedkar that has huge contemporary relevance was about the danger of hero-worshipping political leaders. …

Being Hindu Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Journey from Hindu Nationalism to Inclusive Indian Identity
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Being Hindu Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Journey from Hindu Nationalism to Inclusive Indian Identity

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 10, 2024 08:27 IST - 5 MINS READ In popular imagination, Lala Lajpat Rai is often associated with Bhagat Singh, who assassinated a British police officer to avenge Rai’s death. Significantly, even after joining the Hindu Mahasabha, Rai’s earlier “accommodative Indian nationalism” continued to impact his ideas and activities. Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas …

The tactically silent Indian Muslim voter
11 months, 1 week ago

The tactically silent Indian Muslim voter

Hindustan Times  

Uttar Pradesh has just finished its first phase of Lok Sabha elections and several recent reports have shown that Muslims have observed a “tactical silence” in this election. First, we must reject historical essentialisation — a view of the community that assumes a special historical continuity between the Muslim monarchs of India and Muslims in India today. This view of …

Once a fringe Indian ideology, Hindu nationalism is now mainstream
11 months, 1 week ago

Once a fringe Indian ideology, Hindu nationalism is now mainstream

LA Times  

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sandalwood paste and vermilion applied to his forehead during the inauguration of Kashi Vishwanath Dham Corridor, a promenade that connects the Ganges River with the centuries-old temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva in Varanasi, India, in 2021. “Until Modi, the BJP had never won a majority on their own in India’s Parliament,” said …

Opinion: Nationality defined as citizenship is creating crisis among native people
1 year, 3 months ago

Opinion: Nationality defined as citizenship is creating crisis among native people

India Today  

The crisis of identity is one of the most fundamental issues among native people, often referred to as tribes, which constitute one of the basic units of any indigenous community. Notably, IGNCA leaders, including anthropologist K Anil Kumar, member secretary Sachchidanand Joshi, and president and veteran journalist Ram Bahadur Rai, exchanged views with forest rights advocate Chauhan and others. Gurumurthy …

BJP’s actions not in sync with Hinduism, says Rahul
1 year, 6 months ago

BJP’s actions not in sync with Hinduism, says Rahul

Hindustan Times  

Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is currently touring Europe, attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party during his address at a university in Paris, saying that the ruling party just aims to get power at any cost and that there is “nothing Hindu” about their actions. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi speaks during the public interaction with Professor Christophe Jafflerlot at Sciences …

Opinion: BHARAT vs INDIA – Contours of Nationalism vs Pseudo-Nationalism
1 year, 6 months ago

Opinion: BHARAT vs INDIA – Contours of Nationalism vs Pseudo-Nationalism

India Today  

The concept of nationalism is marked by conflicting viewpoints that shape its interpretation and influence its role in various societies. This perspective views the freedom struggle as a catalyst that galvanized diverse groups of people into a shared sense of nationalism, ultimately leading to the formation of the Bharatiya nation-state in 1947. In contrast, proponents of Cultural Nationalism assert that …

Just Like That | Indianness remains our central identity
1 year, 8 months ago

Just Like That | Indianness remains our central identity

Hindustan Times  

My first meeting with Dr Amartya Sen was many years ago when at a dinner in Delhi, I was seated next to him. As he wrote, “A person’s citizenship, residence, geographic origin, gender, class, politics, profession, employment, food habits, sports interests, taste in music, social commitments, etc make us members of a variety of groups. None of them can be …

For Hindutva, only the Hindu past is relevant, says Romila Thapar, author of The Future in the Past: Essays & Reflections
1 year, 9 months ago

For Hindutva, only the Hindu past is relevant, says Romila Thapar, author of The Future in the Past: Essays & Reflections

The Hindu  

Romila Thapar is one of the best known critics of Hindutva politics. The purpose of Hindutva history is to maintain that the proposed Hindu Rashtra is the predictable outcome of the past of India. So they set about investigating India and came up with the theory that there had been two religious ‘nations’ — the Hindu and the Muslim — …

Review of Tanika Sarkar’s Hindu Nationalism in India: Medium and message
1 year, 9 months ago

Review of Tanika Sarkar’s Hindu Nationalism in India: Medium and message

The Hindu  

June 08, 2023 11:42 am | Updated 11:42 am IST Distinguished historian Tanika Sarkar has been publishing on Hindu nationalism for nearly four decades. The eight essays collected in Hindu Nationalism in India were written between 1991 and 2022 and focus on the dynamics of the rise and expansion of Hindu nationalist pedagogy and popular mobilisation. In terms of academic …

Rahul Gandhi in USA: Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar were NRIs
1 year, 9 months ago

Rahul Gandhi in USA: Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar were NRIs

Op India  

Addressing the Indian Diaspora in New York on Monday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed that the key architects of contemporary India were all Non-Resident Indians who kept an open mind about the outside world. The Congress leader, who is on the last legs of his ongoing three-city tour of the US, said all prominent leaders associated with the country’s freedom …

Review of The Nation and its Citizens: Tales of Bondage and Belonging: A lived experience
1 year, 10 months ago

Review of The Nation and its Citizens: Tales of Bondage and Belonging: A lived experience

The Hindu  

The unnerving turmoil of the times often impel political observers to characterise it as a definitive rupture from a more desirable form of social order and notion of a collective self. The singular success of Sukumar Muralidharan’s The Nation and its Citizens is locating India’s present in a larger historical and geographical context. Anti-imperialist nationalism that developed in colonies including …

‘India is not nationalist but..’: RSS leader Vaidya
1 year, 11 months ago

‘India is not nationalist but..’: RSS leader Vaidya

Hindustan Times  

Rashtriya Swayamevak Sangh joint general secretary Manmohan Vaidya on Saturday said India always had spiritual democracy and it is this identity which is known as Hindutva in the world. Read here: Satya Pal Malik gets defamation notice from RSS leader over bribery allegation He also said unlike in Pakistan, "so-called" minorities in India have many equal rights, which is "Hinduness …

How RRR's nationalism struck a chord with the West | OPINION
2 years ago

How RRR's nationalism struck a chord with the West | OPINION

India Today  

With the Oscars around the corner, more than a billion Indians are hoping that director SS Rajamouli and RRR return home with the Oscar for Best Original Song. Raju and Bheema’s friendship and their anti-colonial struggle struck a chord with the Western audience and though critics implied there was a strong current of Hindu nationalism in the film, it is …

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat backs LGBTQ rights, says 'they too should have their own private space'
2 years, 2 months ago

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat backs LGBTQ rights, says 'they too should have their own private space'

India TV News  

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat backs LGBTQ rights, says 'they too should have their own private space' The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief said India has been undivided from the earliest times of recorded history, but was divided whenever the core Hindu sense was forgotten. Muslims have nothing to fear in India, but they must abandon their "boisterous rhetoric of supremacy", RSS …

Interrogating the nation state
2 years, 3 months ago

Interrogating the nation state

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 14, 2022 18:00 IST The Nation and its Citizens is a timely intervention into many of the current and ongoing public debates around contentious issues. A ‘cultural turn’ More recently, cultural sociologists have pushed the case for a “cultural turn” in making an argument for culture as a meaning-making exercise for political action. Culture is driven by …

India's Religious Polarization Is Seeping Into The US Diaspora
2 years, 5 months ago

India's Religious Polarization Is Seeping Into The US Diaspora

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING In Edison, New Jersey, a bulldozer, which has become a symbol of oppression of India’s Muslim minority, rolled down the street during a parade marking that country’s Independence Day. On the other hand, many Hindu Americans feel vilified and targeted for their views, said Samir Kalra, managing director of the Hindu American Foundation in Washington, D.C. “The …

Religious polarization in India seeping into US diaspora
2 years, 5 months ago

Religious polarization in India seeping into US diaspora

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Shakeel Syed, executive director of the South Asian Network, a social justice …

How India's middle-class came to be so patriotic
2 years, 7 months ago

How India's middle-class came to be so patriotic

Live Mint  

As a boy growing up in India, I did not know any dead Indian who was not a patriot, or a living Indian who was one. I don’t know about India in its early years after independence, but I can tell you that in the 1980s, most Indians I came across were not patriots. In fact, since the 80s, even …

Self-obsessed govt hell-bent on trivialising freedom fighters\' sacrifices: Sonia
2 years, 7 months ago

Self-obsessed govt hell-bent on trivialising freedom fighters\' sacrifices: Sonia

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday alleged that a "self-obsessed" government is hell-bent on "trivialising" the sacrifices of freedom fighters and the party will strongly oppose such attempts made for political gains. The Congress had also taken a strong exception to the exclusion of India's first prime minister Nehru in the Karnataka government's newspaper "Friends, we have achieved …

How the vision of ‘One Nation’ suppresses alternative voices
2 years, 8 months ago

How the vision of ‘One Nation’ suppresses alternative voices

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 10, 2022 18:00 IST It is a tale often told that politics in India became a caste-infested place in the 1990s. In 2019, the Prime Minister in his customary Independence Day broadcast celebrated the new reality that every Indian could speak of “One Nation with One Constitution”. The Congress turnaround on nationalism Congress president Rahul Gandhi, in …

Rahul Gandhi Defends His Idea of Nation at Cambridge University, Says India is a Union of States
2 years, 10 months ago

Rahul Gandhi Defends His Idea of Nation at Cambridge University, Says India is a Union of States

News 18  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi while addressing students at the Cambridge University raised the concept of “nation” and “Union of states”, and called India the latter. Dr Shruti Kapila, a fellow at Corpus Christi College, invited Rahul to speak at the ‘India at 75’ event, and began the session by saying freedom in India was in “short supply” today. Rahul also …

Questioning India’s ‘nationhood’ reflects Rahul Gandhi’s constitutional and historical ignorance
2 years, 10 months ago

Questioning India’s ‘nationhood’ reflects Rahul Gandhi’s constitutional and historical ignorance

Firstpost  

The Congress leader’s ‘India is not a nation’ statement exposes his long-held colonial beliefs and that he is still trapped and influenced by the colonial narrative A list of fundamental duties was added to the Indian Constitution by the 42nd Amendment Act of 1976. On 21 May, when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reasserted his claim in London, first made in …

Race Problem, 'True Unity' To 'Eternal Justice' — What Rabindranath Tagore Said In 1917 About Nationalism In India
2 years, 10 months ago

Race Problem, 'True Unity' To 'Eternal Justice' — What Rabindranath Tagore Said In 1917 About Nationalism In India

ABP News  

New Delhi: Rabindranath Tagore was a genius polymath who has inspired generations with his writings, music and art. This basis has come through our saints, like Nanak, Kabir, Chaitanya and others, preaching one God to all races of India.” ‘Solving The World Problem’ “What India has been, the whole world is now. The problem is whether the different groups of …

Right Word | ‘Hindu nationalism’ and the emergence of ‘Bharatiya’ model of development
3 years ago

Right Word | ‘Hindu nationalism’ and the emergence of ‘Bharatiya’ model of development

Firstpost  

If one looks at it from the Bharatiya perspective, what is important is ‘dharma’ and its true manifestation through individual and collective actions. So the Hindu nationalism/cultural nationalism or the Bharatiya Model of Development is actually the ‘Unique Selling Proposition ’ of the BJP which is making it expand and consolidate across the country. If one wants to understand the …

Hindu nationalism is a threat to Muslims and India’s status as the world’s largest democracy
3 years, 1 month ago

Hindu nationalism is a threat to Muslims and India’s status as the world’s largest democracy

LA Times  

Activists with the right-wing Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal organizations take part in a rally in Kolkata, India. It makes you feel helpless.” Fueled by Hindu nationalism, encouraged by authorities and carried out with impunity, oppression of Muslims has become so pervasive in India that experts said it is undermining the country’s standing as the world’s largest democracy and …

We existed as a nation before British: Why Rahul Gandhi needs to stop rediscovering India
3 years, 1 month ago

We existed as a nation before British: Why Rahul Gandhi needs to stop rediscovering India

Firstpost  

It was fashionable among the Western scholars, evangelists and Indologists to refer to India not as a nation but a conglomerate of nations. Articulating the British view, John Strachy wrote in 1880: “This is the first and foremost thing to learn about India that there is not, and never was an India, or even any country of India possessing, according …

Western narrative on Subhas Chandra Bose suffers from poor scholarship, revisionist history and rank hypocrisy
3 years, 1 month ago

Western narrative on Subhas Chandra Bose suffers from poor scholarship, revisionist history and rank hypocrisy

Firstpost  

The vilification of Bose by the Western elite, reeks of confirmation bias and politicisation of history. Another one regards Bose’s move to seek alliance with Hitler “ morally offensive ” and is of the opinion that “India has always had a rather ambivalent attitude to Subhas Chandra Bose.” India has always had a rather ambivalent attitude to Subhas Chandra Bose, …

‘The spell of Modi has been broken’
3 years, 2 months ago

‘The spell of Modi has been broken’

The Hindu  

DrThomas Blom Hansen, a renowned scholar on Hindu nationalism, is currently Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, California, and Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Chair at Stanford University. Many of those who support the BJP—and that includes a large proportion of India’s educated middle classes—love the idea of Hindu pride and Hindu power. There was a suspicion among many Muslim League politicians …

Shashi Tharoor writes: A struggle between two ideas of India
3 years, 7 months ago

Shashi Tharoor writes: A struggle between two ideas of India

The Hindu  

At midnight on August 15, 1947, independent India was born as its first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, proclaimed ‘a tryst with destiny.a moment.which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.’ With those words he launched India on …

The democratic nationalism of India
4 years ago

The democratic nationalism of India

New Indian Express  

Simply put, patriotism is the love for your motherland. Again, social scientists who used to dismiss identity as a primordial feeling today accept its importance in shaping the lives of the people. Regardless of the famous Shakespearean question ‘What’s in a name?’, the fact remains that a name provides you a distinct and unique identity. Conscious of the historical role …

The absurdity of conservatism: How enforcement of 'culture' is at odds with nation's real heritage and development
4 years ago

The absurdity of conservatism: How enforcement of 'culture' is at odds with nation's real heritage and development

Firstpost  

Joining the Dots is a fortnightly column by author and journalist Samrat in which he connects events to ideas, often through analysis, but occasionally through satire. The enforcers of those taboos have observed with horror the dilution of their cherished norms since the establishment of British rule in colonial India, when “inter dining” meaning people of different castes and even …

It was in basic character of a Hindu to be patriotic: RSS chief
4 years, 2 months ago

It was in basic character of a Hindu to be patriotic: RSS chief

The Hindu  

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Friday that it was in the basic character and nature of a Hindu to be patriotic and that the love of his motherland flowed from his/her dharma or spiritual and religious beliefs, something even Mahatma Gandhi spoke of in his writings. Describing the book as an authentic scholarly research document on Gandhiji, …

Opening up the debate on the idea of India
4 years, 3 months ago

Opening up the debate on the idea of India

Live Mint  

What does it mean to be Indian, and what is the idea of India? While the buzz is indeed impressive, the book details thoughts that the authors first put down in the opinion pages of Mint seven years ago, making a call back then to debate the idea of a “new India”. As they did then, the authors want to …

'We're All Minorities in India': Shashi Tharoor On Nationalism And The Constant Battle of Belonging
4 years, 4 months ago

'We're All Minorities in India': Shashi Tharoor On Nationalism And The Constant Battle of Belonging

News 18  

There is a very defined trajectory to Shashi Tharoor’s literary pursuits. The author says that despite the ‘myriad problems’ that India has, it is the democracy that has given Indian citizens of various caste, creed, culture, and cause the chance to break free of their age-old subsistence-level existence. The various schemes established by successive governments from Independence onwards for the …

Shashi Tharoor explores idea of nation in new book; says 'Hindutva's ethno-religious nationalism will deny India to many Indians'
4 years, 4 months ago

Shashi Tharoor explores idea of nation in new book; says 'Hindutva's ethno-religious nationalism will deny India to many Indians'

Firstpost  

Are some Indians more Indian than others? Dr Shashi Tharoor examines the ideas of nationalism, patriotism, and what it means to be Indian in ‘The Battle of Belonging’. The Battle of Belonging: On Nationalism, Patriotism, And What it Means to Be Indian is Dr Shashi Tharoor’s latest book. In the chapter ‘we are all minorities in India’ you make an …

No Nation for Mahatma Gandhi — 72 years on it's Nathu Ram Godse who is trending on Twitter!!
4 years, 5 months ago

No Nation for Mahatma Gandhi — 72 years on it's Nathu Ram Godse who is trending on Twitter!!

India TV News  

Mahatma, the prefix popularly used for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was not offered to him as reward or a government commendation. Post-independent India simply continued with Mahatma Gandhi as till this date, there is no better way to address the man - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. But today after 72 years of his death, on the day when the Great Son Of …

On 74th Independence Day, examining the idea of India and the Indian through five essays from our archives
4 years, 7 months ago

On 74th Independence Day, examining the idea of India and the Indian through five essays from our archives

Firstpost  

As we observe India’s 74th Independence Day, amid a pandemic that is swiftly reshaping the world and all that was familiar, we’re revisiting five essays from ‘India and the Indian’, a series analysing the renewed idea of nationalism that is in vogue. The columns were collected into a series titled ‘ India and the Indian ’, featuring works by Pa …

Rabindranath Tagore's thoughts on nation-building that informed the National Anthem remain timely, and relevant
4 years, 10 months ago

Rabindranath Tagore's thoughts on nation-building that informed the National Anthem remain timely, and relevant

Firstpost  

As Rabindranath Tagore’s 159th birth anniversary is observed, revisiting the origins of the National Anthem and why it is the ‘protest song’ India needs at this socio political juncture. For thereby man’s power of sacrifice is diverted from his ultimate object, which is moral, to the maintenance of this organisation, which is mechanical.” Tagore unequivocally contests the ideals of modern-day …

Gandhi: An anathema to the ‘left-liberal’ establishment
4 years, 11 months ago

Gandhi: An anathema to the ‘left-liberal’ establishment

Op India  

Introduction In India, the Left-Liberal establishment has always maintained firm control over the institutions that consist of critical positions in professions such as journalism and universities. And we Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.” In fact, he adds that only those who considered themselves ‘civilized’ and ‘superior’ persons “imagine that India is many nations” and not one unified …

Nationalism, 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' being misused to construct militant idea of India: Manmohan Singh
5 years, 1 month ago

Nationalism, 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' being misused to construct militant idea of India: Manmohan Singh

India Today  

Nationalism and the slogan of 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' are being misused to construct a "militant and purely emotional" idea of India that excludes millions of residents and citizens, former prime minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday, in an apparent attack on the BJP. Addressing a gathering at the launch of a book on Jawaharlal Nehru's works and speeches, Manmohan …

Wish they understood Gandhi's nationalism: Congress on RSS chief Bhagwat's remark
5 years, 1 month ago

Wish they understood Gandhi's nationalism: Congress on RSS chief Bhagwat's remark

India TV News  

The Congress on Friday attacked the BJP and the Sangh Pariwar over RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's remarks, saying if they would have understood Mahatma Gandhi's nationalism then the need for distancing themselves from nationalism would not have arisen. Now you are saying that nationalism means Hitler's rule and fascism," Congress's chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said. "We wish, if the BJP …

We need patriotism as a unifier in a divisive polity
5 years, 2 months ago

We need patriotism as a unifier in a divisive polity

Hindustan Times  

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrote Samuel Johnson, back in 1775. In the Instagram age, giving young India, contemporary, social media worthy sharing symbols must be encouraged In 2016, in a much-debated judgment, the Supreme Court ruled that the National Anthem be played before the screening of movies at cinema theatres around the country. Providing them contemporary …

Post-nationalism and the notion of ‘ordinary’ person: How India shifted from a people-driven republic to a State-driven one
5 years, 2 months ago

Post-nationalism and the notion of ‘ordinary’ person: How India shifted from a people-driven republic to a State-driven one

Firstpost  

In recent times, the binary between what we are and what we do has largely collapsed. Performative national life – where everyday acts of the people are statist and authoritarian rather than nationalist and egalitarian – hardly receives any interest from social analysts. In the new performances of national life, the ordinary person is no longer – as was the …

How the Left and liberals ceded nationalism to BJP | Analysis
5 years, 5 months ago

How the Left and liberals ceded nationalism to BJP | Analysis

Hindustan Times  

The Narendra Modi government, in its second term, is dealing with an economic slowdown. This nationalism involves three aspects — developing a deep hatred for India’s enemies, real or imagined; being aggressive and battle-ready to fight these enemies; and cultural homogeneity of religion, language and dietary habits. As Ashutosh Varshney argues, civic nationalism, as against ethnic nationalism, recognises equal rights …

Gandhi’s legacy being ‘forgotten’ amid rise of far right in India
5 years, 5 months ago

Gandhi’s legacy being ‘forgotten’ amid rise of far right in India

Al Jazeera  

At New Delhi’s Gandhi Smriti, a poignant memorial site on the spot where India‘s revered freedom fighter, Mahatma Gandhi, was assassinated in 1948, visitors, noticeably more foreign than Indian, line up sombrely to offer homage. “Perhaps we have become a more consumerist and divisive society far removed from Gandhi’s teachings that such a world icon is neglected in his birthplace,” …

Team India’s new colours and how Hindu nationalism got mixed up with the nationalism of colonial oppressors
5 years, 9 months ago

Team India’s new colours and how Hindu nationalism got mixed up with the nationalism of colonial oppressors

Op India  

This is the new jersey of Team India. Only a few days ago, the Guardian gave coverage to an absurd sentiment during the India – Pakistan cricket game; to an alleged India fan who was unhappy that the Indian team had turned into “cold-hearted winners.” Instead, this alleged India fan was longing for the days when India’s gameplan would fall …

India and the Indian: Inequitable majority-minority relations no longer a fringe phenomenon
5 years, 9 months ago

India and the Indian: Inequitable majority-minority relations no longer a fringe phenomenon

Firstpost  

The minority is now officially reconfigured as an obstacle to development, a drain on resources, an alien and socially divisive element that weakens cultural cohesion; a primitive, non-modern and unassimilable remnant of the past. It is excerpted from the introduction to ‘ Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India ’, edited by Angana P Chatterji, Thomas Blom Hansen and …

India and the Indian: Will we never be able to achieve consensus on being legitimately Indian, writes Aakash Singh Rathore
5 years, 9 months ago

India and the Indian: Will we never be able to achieve consensus on being legitimately Indian, writes Aakash Singh Rathore

Firstpost  

Swept away by the exclusivistic sense of the nation, we, in our fear and weakness, are permitting it to define who gets to be a bona fide Indian — always with tragic consequences. Indeed, his life story reveals that a former ‘untouchable’ seems to require some sort of visa, granted as a privilege and not a right, in order to …

India and the Indian: Hindu nationalism is an inherently secular notion, not a theocratic concept, writes Sreemoy Talukdar
5 years, 9 months ago

India and the Indian: Hindu nationalism is an inherently secular notion, not a theocratic concept, writes Sreemoy Talukdar

Firstpost  

For Hindus, respect for different customs, faiths and religion is not a value to strive for. South Asia scholar Christophe Jaffrelot, in his book Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India, writes that India is moving towards an “ethnic democracy” where minorities must “accept a status as dominated, second-class citizens.” Referring to “Jewish dominance at the expense of Muslims”, …

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