Earlier Collection
Hindutva - A Collection of Articles and Ideas
http://guide-india.blogspot.com/2013/09/hindutva.html
Swami Dayananda Saraswati
"He was the first to give the call for Swarajya as "India for Indians" – in 1876. It was later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak."
Even Congress party acknowledges it.
FaceBook Post by Indian National Congress
February 12, 2020 ·
"Dayananda Saraswati was an Indian philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of the Vedic Dharma. He was the first to give the call for Swaraj as "India for Indians" in 1876. We honour his contributions to our Nation today."
https://www.facebook.com/IndianNationalCongress/photos/dayananda-saraswati-was-an-indian-philosopher-social-leader-and-founder-of-the-a/2783080651804589/
"India for Indians" - "Hindustan for Hindus" - Is there any difference?
Indostan and Hindustan both are same. Indian and Hindu both are same.
1908
Hind Swaraj - Independence for India - M.K. Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi on Independence for India - 1908 Publication
https://guide-india.blogspot.com/2012/03/hind-swaraj-independence-for-india-mk.html
Ram Prasad Bismil - Hindustan Republican Association
Desh par marr jayenge
Marte marte desh ko
zinda magar kar jayenge”
Ram Prasad Bismil was one of the most notable Indian revolutionaries who fought British colonialism with a desire for freedom and revolutionary spirit reverberating in every inch of his body and poetry. Bismil, who was born in 1897, was a respected member of the Hindustan Republican Association alongside Sukhdev. He was also a participant in the infamous Kakori train heist, for which the British government condemned him to death.
Born: 11 June 1897, Shahjahanpur
Died: 19 December 1927, Gorakhpur Jail, Gorakhpur
Cause of death: Execution by hanging
Organization: Hindustan Republican Association
https://leverageedu.com/blog/indian-freedom-fighters/
Chandra Shekhar Azad
Chandra Shekhar Azad, born in 1906, was a close companion of Bhagat Singh in the independence movement. He was also a member of the Hindustan Republican Association. He was the bravest and daring Indian freedom fighters against the British authorities. After murdering several opponents during a battle with British forces, he shot himself with his Colt pistol. He promised he’d never be caught alive by the British. He reorganized the Hindustan Republican Association as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
Born: 23 July 1906, Bhavra
Died: 27 February 1931, Chandrashekhar Azad Park
Full name: Chandrashekhar Tiwari
Education: Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1640655
1921-1922
Hindutva by V.D. Savarkar
http://library.bjp.org/jspui/bitstream/123456789/284/3/essentials_of_hindutva.v001.pdf
Why Savarkar wrote this essay? To clarify the position of Hindu Mahasabha on whom it is representing?
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095937609
Hindutva 101 by Sadhana.Org
Difficult, but important.
Talking about complex political, historical, and religious issues may seem intimidating, especially for those of us who have grown up outside India. Nevertheless, it is our responsibility to speak up. This guide is intended for Hindu-Americans who may want to talk to their parents, relatives, friends, or colleagues about Hindu nationalism but don’t know where to start. It will give an overview of Hindutva from a Hindu perspective and then provide some links we have collected that address the issue thoughtfully.
July 17th, 2018
“I don’t believe that Hindutva is Hinduism” – Dr Shashi Tharoor.
Dr Shashi Tharoor was recently in the UK to promote his new book Why I am a Hindu.
Anishka Gheewala Lohiya had the opportunity to talk to Dr Tharoor at LSE about the relationship between politics and religion in India.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2018/07/17/i-dont-believe-that-hindutva-is-hinduism-dr-shashi-tharoor/
Hindutva
M. G. Chitkara
APH Publishing, 1997 - Hinduism - 303 pages
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=zqkBNr4U7cwC
The book is interesting to read.
Page 4: By middle of the 14th century, the work Hindu acquired prestige in the writings of various poets. Padmanabha uses the word Hindu to glorify Chauhans of Jalore in his epic poem (1455 AD), Kanhadade Prabhandha.
Hindutva, Ideology, and Politics
A. A. Parvathy
Deep and Deep Publications, 2003
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=RpaEt8npT0sC
Uproot Hindutva: The Fiery Voice of the Liberation Panthers
Thirumaavalavan
Popular Prakashan, 2004 - Dalits - 248 pages
Thirumaavalavan analyses the various roles of Hindutva (ideology of the Hindu right] in sustaining the hegemony of the caste system. He speaks provocatively of the need to counter Hindutva with a Tamil identity that can reach beyond its region to other oppressed peoples. He speaks of Eelam -- the cause of the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka -- of the refusal to be Hindu and of the right to conversion, of women's rights, of the heritage of the dalits, of the need to follow the guidelines of the dalit reformer, Dr B R Ambedkar, among other issues. Always unflinchingly honest and hard-hitting, the collection reveals new currents in Dalit politics.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=HfNRO-LtsN4C
The Era of Hindutva, Right’s might and increasing fascism
Arshdeep
Jan 1, 2020
Year 2011
UPA is in power and India is fed up of the immensely corrupt people in power. And people who resonated with Anna Hazare decided to launch Anti-Corruption Movement.
This movement was one of the main reasons why UPA goverment and the mainstream LEFT-WING will fall on its knees by securing only 59 seats out of total 543 seats in next elections and it will indicate how desperate were the people for a change.
BJS subsequently reorganised itself as the BJP under the leadership of Vajpayee, Lal Krishan Advani, and Murali Manohar Joshi. BJP advocated hindutva (“Hindu-ness”), an ideology that sought to define Indian culture in terms of Hindu values, and it was highly critical of the policies and practices that should be of a secular nation.
The term “Hindutva” was promoted by Indian freedom movement activist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (also called Vir Savarkar). He wrote Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu? (1923), coining the term Hindutva. Savarkar wasn’t really setting out to create a Hindu nation. India was, he asserted, a nation, based on hindu-ness in an organic sense.
“BJP governments at the state and federal level are altering Indian history textbooks to conform with Hindu nationalist doctrine.” (What is Hindu nationalist doctrine?)
For some time it has been made pretty clear by different BJP party members, Hindu Rashtra is what they demand and will go to any extent to achieve this dream of theirs.
Hindutva and Dalits: Perspectives for Understanding Communal Praxis
Anand Teltumbde
SAGE Publishing India, 31-Jan-2020 - Social Science - 384 pages
Despite the teachings of Babasaheb Ambedkar against Hinduism and its pernicious caste system, which he forsook to become a Buddhist, many Dalits have turned to Hindutva. The RSS under Balasaheb Deoras began to appropriate Ambedkar, engaging with Dalits and Adivasis, Hinduizing their beliefs, providing social welfare and binding them in a political alliance.
Hindutva and Dalits: Perspectives for Understanding Communal Praxis takes a comprehensive view of the birth and growth of the Hindutva movement and its specific impact on Dalits. Part I, Theoretical Perspectives, explores the attitude of Hindutva vis-à-vis Dalits in its various manifestations. Part II, Hindutva in Operation, covers empirical evidence of its impact on Dalits. The contributors, distinguished scholar-activists, offer a provocative analysis on why both Dalits and Adivasis are drawn to Hindutva.
As analysed by Tanika Sarkar in her incisive Foreword, Hindutva’s hegemonic agenda lets ‘subalterns develop a stake in their own subordination, ... not in resignation or despair but in eager self-identification with it’. The great strength of this collection is that it asks difficult questions that need to be asked and yet have no easy answers. The book, thus, makes an invaluable contribution to the debate and takes it forward.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=HhvHDwAAQBAJ
Hindutva as a variant of right-wing extremism
Eviane Leidig
Patterns of Prejudice
Volume 54, 2020 - Issue 3, Pages 215-237
Our one supreme goal is to bring to life the all-round glory and greatness of our Hindu Rashtra. [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, ‘Mission’]
Quoted in Thomas A. Howard, ‘Hindu nationalism against religious pluralism—or, the sacralization of religious identity and its discontents in present-day India’, in Kaye V. Cook (ed.), Faith in a Pluralist Age (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books 2018), 62–78 (67).
The only positive thing about the Hindu right wing is that they dominate the streets. They do not tolerate the current injustice and often riot and attack Muslims when things get out of control, usually after the Muslims disrespect and degrade Hinduism too much … India will continue to wither and die unless the Indian nationalists consolidate properly and strike to win. It is essential that the European and Indian resistance movements learn from each other and cooperate as much as possible. Our goals are more or less identical. [Anders Behring Breivik, ‘2083: A European Declaration of Independence’]
Andrew Berwick [pseud., i.e. Anders Behring Breivik], ‘2083: A European declaration of independence’, 1475, available on the Public Intelligence website at https://info.publicintelligence.net/AndersBehringBreivikManifesto.pdf (viewed 28 May 2020).
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0031322X.2020.1759861
Neo-Hindutva: Evolving Forms, Spaces, and Expressions of Hindu Nationalism
Edward Anderson, Arkotong Longkumer
Routledge, 21-May-2020 - Social Science - 156 pages
Neo-Hindutva explores the recent proliferation and evolution of Hindu nationalism – the assertive majoritarian, right-wing ideology that is transforming contemporary India.
This volume develops and expands on the idea of ‘neo-Hindutva’ –– Hindu nationalist ideology which is evolving and shifting in new, surprising, and significant ways, requiring a reassessment and reframing of prevailing understandings. The contributors identify and explain the ways in which Hindu nationalism increasingly permeates into new spaces: organisational, territorial, conceptual, rhetorical. The scope of the chapters reflect the diversity of contemporary Hindutva – both in India and beyond – which appears simultaneously brazen but concealed, nebulous and mainstreamed, militant yet normalised. They cover a wide range of topics and places in which one can locate new forms of Hindu nationalism: courts of law, the Northeast, the diaspora, Adivasi (tribal) communities, a powerful yoga guru, and the Internet. The volume also includes an in-depth interview with Christophe Jaffrelot and a postscript by Deepa Reddy.
Helping readers to make sense of contemporary Hindutva, Neo-Hindutva is ideal for scholars of India, Hinduism, Nationalism, and Asian Studies more generally. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary South Asia.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=I2nnDwAAQBAJ
PUBLICATION -The politics of Hindutva in India - Routledge
November 2020
https://www.iiss.org/publications/strategic-comments/2020/hindutva-politics-india
Cultural Entrenchment of Hindutva: Local Mediations and Forms of Convergence
Daniela Berti, Nicolas Jaoul, Pralay Kanungo
Taylor & Francis, 29-Nov-2020 - History - 358 pages
The book reflects on the discreet influence of Hindutva in situations/places outside or at the margins of its organisational and mobilisational arena, where people denying any commitment to the Sangh Parivar, incidentally, show affinities and parallelisms with its discourse and practice. This study looks at Hindutva’s entrenchment not so much as an orchestration from above but more as an outcome of a process that evolves in relation to specific social and cultural milieus.
The contributors analyse Hindutva’s entrenchment, emphasising on the ethnography of the forms of mediation and/or convergence produced in certain contexts. The 11 case studies highlight three different dynamics of Hindutva’s cultural entrenchment. The first section gathers cases where RSS-affiliated organisations have set up specific cultural or artistic programmes at the regional level, involving the meditation of local people whose interest in these programmes does not necessarily mean that they endorse the Hindutva agenda completely. The next deals with convergence and refers to cases where the followers gather around a charismatic personality, whose precepts and practice may bring them towards a closer affinity with the Hindutva programme. The last section deals with the contexts of resistance, where social milieus engaged in opposing Hindutva may, in fact, paradoxically, and even inadvertently, imbibe some of its ideas and practices in order to contest its claims.
The Eternal Hindu Rashtra
Dr Manmohan Vaidya
DR MANMOHAN VAIDYA
Sep 07, 2021
As per Hindu thought, ‘Rashtra’ means people. It also includes their mindset, attitude towards life, relationship with nature and the universe, approach towards history and tradition etc. In short, all things that form and impact the entire society.
Is India a Nation?
(Has any body questioned it earlier?)
[Winston Churchill once very famously remarked, “India is as much a nation as the equator is a place”.
[IN A speech to London’s Constitutional Club in 1931, Winston Churchill poured scorn on the idea of India. “India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the equator,” he spat, a slur that invites such uniform disagreement from Indians as to disprove itself. Less well known, but more worthy of debate, is the previous line of Churchill’s speech: “India is no more a political personality than Europe,” he contended. Banyan
[ The boundaries of ‘here’, the nation, are continually constructed and contested but they are somewhat stable at any given time. India is anomalous in this regard because our nation contains multitudes. Built on imperial foundations, our nationalist conceit was to break the European mould and forge a nation out of an empire unified not by blood and soil but by ideas of freedom, self-reliance, social justice, and mutual respect for different faiths and cultures.
The vastness and diversity of the British Indian Empire meant that any nation emerging from it could not possibly claim any cultural unity; facts dictated that if the entity called India were to be a nation, it had to be a civic one rather than an ethnic one. Notwithstanding the horrors of Partition, turning a multitudinous empire into India was a singular achievement. Anush Kapadia in EMPIRE NATION PART 1: HOW INDIA’S INTERNAL DIVISION OF LABOUR IS COLONIAL AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT
All the people living on this great land of Bharat, from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean, despite having diverse languages, castes, deities, ways of worship, food habits, costumes, etc, have the same approach towards life, ideals, nature, society and entire humanity. For thousands of years this approach has been cultivated and practiced as a culture that binds the society together. This bonding makes it a ‘Rashtra’. The main reason for inherent unity expressed in diversity forms the spirituality-based integral and holistic worldview that is the hallmark of Bharat and Bharatiyta.
Bharatiyas believe in "Ishavasyam Idam Sarvam", which means everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is the manifestation of the same Spirit (Chaitanya).
Thus, the fundamental disconnect between the Western and Bharatiya thought is that while the former strives for ‘all are one’, the later organically believes in ‘all is one’.
'RSS Used Digital Tech to Adapt': Jaffrelot at Dismantling Global Hindutva Event
According to French Political Scientist Christophe Jaffrelot, the RSS used digital techniques to their advantage.
THE QUINT
Published: 11 Sep 2021, 9:05 AM IST
https://www.thequint.com/news/dismantling-global-hindutva-multidisciplinary-perspectives-dgh-a-three-day-global-scholarly-conference-begins#read-more
Anand Patwardhan: If Hindutva is Hinduism then the Ku Klux Klan is Christianity
The filmmaker’s speech at the Dismantling Global Hindutva conference being held from September 10-September 12.
12 Sep 2021
https://scroll.in/article/1005159/anand-patwardhan-if-hindutva-is-hinduism-then-the-ku-klux-klan-is-christianity
