id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_6k4uelo3gzagljria4yrumyr6q Deepa Reddy Capturing Hindutva: Rhetorics and Strategies 2011 12 .pdf application/pdf 7356 567 57 descriptions of Hindu nationalism or Hindutva in India have been dominated by such The fascist characterization, in turn, is supplanted by a view of hindutva as quintessentially a form of 'hate politics', following horrific riots in Gujarat State (in Western India) Scholarly observers of late 1980s and early 1990s hindutva tended to characterize by analogy, placing Hindu nationalism quite easily amidst other resurgent religious nationalisms What is at stake in the characterization of hindutva as fascism, then, is not merely effective analysis, but the increasingly urgent political need, in Raychaudhuri's words, to keep Her book, Religious Identity and Political Destiny: Hindutva in the Culture of Ethnicism is not only critics of hindutva who call upon analytical analogies to create recognition in non-Indian contexts; Kurien notes that American Hindu groups have likened Islamic invasions into Northern India to a 'holocaust' that rivals Religious Identity and Political Destiny: Hindutva in the Culture of Ethnicism. ./cache/work_6k4uelo3gzagljria4yrumyr6q.pdf ./txt/work_6k4uelo3gzagljria4yrumyr6q.txt