Economics is a religion

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

The problem with any data is that it hides other data.  You cannot get the big picture on anything without a dashboard view representation of various relevant data points with an accompanying concept matrix. Any data can look good in a side view.

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1783744085834285083?t=JbIHa10mtxL_Q4m5fs48cA&s=19

Modi is taken seriously by ordinary people because he adopts a serious tone even when he says things that are conceptually flawed, factually inaccurate & historically inconsistent. Those who mock him on facts, ideas, promises & mannerisms get more jokes than votes

#Elections2024

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1783491726365352294?t=w3k4UQlox3uG7FLT3PGZVw&s=19

Pride is a human need, like food, clothing & shelter.  It grows stronger when the three are taken care of. This hunger is fed by a sense of the self, which when lacking in accomplished self-worth, seeks it in a larger identity, based on community, religion, team or nation

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1783511176980168858?t=1q3ZcWps8EFM7xc5u0lWWg&s=19

#Economics is a religion in itself. It shapes culture. Money is like a deity. Power is the materialistic equivalent of God. Culture sits between the two like a priest. No wonder priests are like power brokers

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1783374921437270431?t=_zVXS-JAB2u2QdYUKBXkxg&s=19

In 1987 during his tenure as advisor to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, #SamPitroda headed six technology missions related to telecommunications, water, literacy, immunization, dairy, and oilseeds. He spent nearly a decade with Gandhi building India's IT industry

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1783511785124892926?t=Url8IqCLTs_qrhotyYio0Q&s=19

This is how C-DOT came into existence which was instrumental in telecom revolution. Mr. Pitroda also played crucial role in setting up once common PCOs. This initiative connected people  living in almost any part of India + triggered micro entrepreneurship via  booth ownership.

https://twitter.com/RupabhShukla/status/1783527601719619945?t=-gInK4xrIm897TfoqCSv5Q&s=19

TV news channels will be out of fashion if they don't learn to compete with independent digital media and YouTube channels that discuss and report on real issues that touch the lives of ordinary people in a way that is linked to politics 

#media #journalism

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1783049738230898986?t=cRHGArARXj23ZeupnY10fA&s=19

25 लाख से ज्यादा फॉलोवर वाले यूट्यूबर्स के चुनावी झुकाव के अध्ययन से पता चला है कि लगभग सभी ब्राह्मण, भूमिहार और जाट यूट्यूबर्स जैसे आकाश बनर्जी, रवीश कुमार, अजीत अंजुम, ध्रुव राठी, अभिसार शर्मा, संजय शर्मा, दीपक शर्मा, उल्टा चश्मा वगैरह इस बार सरकार के खिलाफ अभियान चला रहे हैं और कांग्रेस के साथ हैं.

बहुजन खासकर एससी यूट्यूबर्स संतुलन बना रहे हैं, वे अभी भी मुद्दा आधारित हैं, पर उनमें से ज्यादातर का झुकाव बीएसपी की तरफ है.

आप लोगों का क्या ऑब्जर्वेशन है? क्या ये अध्ययन सही है.

https://twitter.com/Profdilipmandal/status/1783501654152613945?t=OL0SsUNlM4rdPm5Zzl8VEA&s=19

बहुजन यूट्यूबर और सवर्ण यूट्यूबर में एक फर्क ये है कि बहुजन यूट्यूबर कभी दिल से कांग्रेस का पक्षधर नहीं हो सकता. सब्सक्राइबर का दबाव होता है, पर वह कांग्रेसी मिजाज का नहीं हो सकता. बाबा साहब आंबेडकर के समय से कांग्रेस के साथ बहुजनों की बनी नहीं. ऐतिहासिक टकराव है.

https://twitter.com/Profdilipmandal/status/1783557956623040793?t=-UpQzrb6zMm35U6wVZy9gQ&s=19

Sandeep Balakrishna is giving a series of video lectures on Marxist destruction of Indian history. Dhruv Rathee in his latest video is explaining how millions of Indians are being brainwashed by Hindutva propaganda on the lines of Hitler. Reading Sri Aurobindo can bust distortion

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1783368392864604575?t=kLPh2If15DU1_fohNH943g&s=19

Greed and hostility can't be the motivation for healthy politics. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo therefore endeavoured for transformation of human nature. Descent of Supramental consciousness is the only means for such a prospect for which aspiration, rejection, and surrender needed.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1783729388351275175?t=RQMa3CkJpsjCoW2bH8fhFg&s=19

Modi has repeatedly proved being incapable of representing the lofty spirit of Indian Constitution. He has also destroyed the collective leadership concept in BJP. His preference for certain industrialists has cost him dearly. It's unfortunate that so many people want him again.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1783737526827770298?t=2X5eMhR1p5n7XYxrhRykqw&s=19

Spreading hatred has become so normalised that the concept of treating all citizens equally has practically vanished. So everyone has to be a representative of a specific caste, religion, or language. No common existence or universal feeling. Constitution is a worthless document!

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1783180981479911577?t=GobXdQj6BAoEhVzNw_TOqA&s=19

Savitri Era Party suppots Sam Pitroda for suggesting review of policies relating to the creamy layer. He is being derided like V.P. Singh but ultimately every party will have to adopt these revolutionary measures. His connection with poorer part of Odisha is of special importance

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1783018821558980913?t=UXShcqovv36gWHsCev1Xgw&s=19

Evolution of BJP from RSS, Jana Sangh, SVD, Janata Party, and Vajpayee-Advani era to the present Modi-Shah Pvt Ltd Co is as tragic as the gradual degeneration of Congress. It would appear that democracy is an impossible ideal and what we actually get is perversion and debasement.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1782627704476770329?t=A_-DXkLmHXWj3cFl1Pfb5A&s=19

Indians are going to vote tomorrow for a new Lok Sabha. Savitri Era Party is against AAP, BJP, & Congress for different reasons. Unlike 2014 and 2019 no emotionally charged event has vitiated the atmosphere apart from a stray remark incensing the Rajputs. Let's pray for a new PM!

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1780999747219702065?t=s1qfASfhXdPHOVJwH9xY5Q&s=19

UP being no longer very secure, BJP can hope for a comfortable 200 figure. Anti-incumbency and Opposition-unity will play out in full force. People have become tired of empty rhetoric and endless theatrics. Indian democracy has thrown surprises in the past and two terms are enough. 

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1769754142648496399?t=4kGwcvqqa5namuPKGvjGxA&s=19

Civility, decency, compassion, and humanity

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

My column in @ttindia on why this is the most important general election since 1977. 
As I write: “Authoritarianism crushes the spirit; majoritarianism poisons the mind and the heart. The hate and bigotry it engenders spread like a cancer through the body politic, robbing individuals and society of civility, decency, compassion, of humanity itself. That is why its rise must be checked, by such democratic means as are still available to us.”
telegraphindia.com/opinion/1977-r…

https://twitter.com/Ram_Guha/status/1781528999035801811?t=THOoCzwtSdQ8VigzuilWaA&s=19

Beyond Words: Girish Karnad’s Friendship With A.K. Ramanujan

https://twitter.com/sanjayuvacha/status/1781713756671656140?t=Sf2Mo0TwkRRkfmUjxATLFA&s=19

1. The Left uses colonial constructs in its seeming ‘progressive’ and liberationist view of humanity. Therefore Hinduism is evil because of caste system, superstition, and India’s poverty. Whatever differences may exist in the western political spectrum, they do not translate 2. into opposing views when looking at India and Hinduism. Indeed if not one and the same, they overlap at various levels.

The Guardian may style itself as a liberal mouthpiece and the Daily Mail as that of conservatism (unlike in the 1930s when its owner Lord Rothermere 3. was proud to back the British Union of Fascists, and be photographed with Hitler). So when it comes to Hindus, this Left-Right divide fails to have any significance.

The Right it must be remembered has been the traditional haunt of those who espouse racism, xenophobia, 4. imperial glories, values of Little England, the sanctity of the British Empire,  white supremacy, racism, eugenics, anti-Semitism, Christian values, and the belief that only under British rule was India civilised. 5. Opposed as they may be to the trendy latte sipping bohemian types that read the Guardian, that does not make them any less guilty of Hindu-baiting.

https://twitter.com/RanbirS11414092/status/1780576161107509442?t=BnUgj5y2GGxIeJ-EQAf9WQ&s=19

When Shri Ram Swarup Ji maps all enemy ideologies on the Yogic Chitta bhumis is where he gives us the brahmastra of destroying the source of our enemy ideologies. 

This is why 'Hindu View of Christianity and Islam' is the most seminal work from Hindus in past 150 years.

https://twitter.com/PankajSaxena84/status/1781550391035060606?t=5MQ6R9qZyK8uRzhp3JBeAw&s=19

India's Rebirth is a compilation of quotations from Sri Aurobindo's writings but was not published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram. This mischievous book has corrupted minds of countless readers. Sri Aurobindo: The Life and Teachings of a Revolutionary Philosopher by Roshen Dalal is good.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1781601992781287750?t=kVLWCvOefz7byuboPmRq0Q&s=19

Aurobindo diagnosed as Hindus' worst problem the decline of their thought power. Still is. Note the welcome given by the BJP to Woke values (e.g. quota), now joined by esteemed Hindu thinkers whenever they pontificate on the West.

https://twitter.com/ElstKoenraad/status/1780620846958096551?t=D8QWaKJoI3BaBTqZOoMMdw&s=19

Like many braindead (cfr. Aurobindo) Hindu parrots here, & like the FBI, you are just copying hard-Leftist discourse,-- which uses for the now largely imaginary "white supremacism" similar swearwords & conspiracy theories as for Hindutva. /1

https://twitter.com/ElstKoenraad/status/1780933078967373888?t=FOx_gKzYcaUIuCCTwcYyJA&s=19

Aurobindo understood that the Empire will remain even after all the people manning the Empire will die. So he realized the only way to destroy the Empire is to destroy it at the level of consciousness.

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1781541809946034534?t=ePyA-y0h-fcrxriHkC1x2w&s=19

National god of India? The Hindutva project of building a homogenous India

R Sen - The Round Table, 2024

… of civil society who disagree with the Hindutva way of life have been jailed … Hindutva Nationalism is an exclusive form of Hinduism that believes that the territory of India only belongs to those Hindus who identify it as their ‘holy land’. However …

Another India: the making of the world's largest minority 1947–77: by Pratinav Anil, London, Hurst, 2023, 438 pp.,£ 25 (hardback), ISBN 9781787388086

M Nazir-Ali - 2024

… The author is clearly a protagonist of a secular post-independence India, making his writing challenging for both Hindutva nationalists and those Muslims who wish to maintain an imperium in imperio presence in India, based on a continuing …

India and China

KA Sharma

In the middle of 2019, Ms. Satvinder Kaur from Springer met me and asked me to write a book on higher education. As the President of the South Asian University, I was more than busy at that time. I requested her to wait, if possible, until I finished …

[PDF] The Rise of Authoritarian Civilizational Populism in Turkey, India, Russia and China

I Yilmaz, N Morieson

What is it about the current phase of globalization that feeds on and is fed by the populist zeitgeist? In what follows I will tie the discussion of populism to the changing character of globalization, sometimes called the “new” globalization …

Development of Code-Mixed Marathi-English Dataset for Hate Speech Detection

P Joshi, V Pathak - 2024 International Conference on Emerging Smart …, 2024

… OBC Hindutva is different and Brahmin Hindutva is different This comment means different groups and individuals may have various interpretations and perspectives on the concepts of OBC Hinduism and Brahmin Hinduism. Some annotators may …

Twenty Years of ICPVTR at RSIS: A Continually Evolving–and Still Relevant–Research Agenda

K Ramakrishna

This article explores the threat trends and patterns which have shaped and defined ICPVTR’s research agenda over the past two decades, including the increasing role of women and youth in terrorism, the emergence of so-called salad bar ideologies …

Decolonizing Impact Through the Culture-Centered Approach to Health Communication: Mobilizing Communities to Transform the Structural Determinants of Health

MJ Dutta, S Kaur-Gill, S Metuamate - Health Communication, 2024

In this issue, we outline the central tenets of the culture-centered approach to health communication. What does the culture-centered approach address when suggesting the co-creation of voice infrastructures? What is the theory’s methodological …

Dalit Migrants

AK Pankaj

Labor migration in all its heterogeneity is a multidirectional and contentious process in India. It is intrinsically related to diverse forms of encounters with different people, ethnicities, spaces, cultures, temporalities, and materiality. A prominent scholar of …

Beginning AWS Security

T Penwell

… Prediction 1: Security Will Be Integral to Everything That Organizations Do .....120 Prediction 2: Diversity Will Help Address the Continued … Ravi also practices Indian yoga, meditation, and pranayama on a regular basis. You can connect with him on …

[PDF] el Whispering Clouds, Echoing Mountains: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Gonzalo Ariza's Lyrical Landscapes

P Carbonell - H-ART. Revista de historia, teoría y crítica de arte, 2024

This essay reevaluates the art of Gonzalo Ariza, a twentieth-century Colombian painter renowned for landscapes that merge Eastern and Western traditions. Challenging simplistic categorizations of his oeuvre as an “appropriated Japanese …

[HTML] A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Case Study Investigation of the Academic, Athletic, Psychosocial and Psychological Impacts of Being of a Sport School Student Athlete

F Thompson, F Rongen, I Cowburn, K Till - Sports Medicine, 2024

… Sport schools are a key environment for DC development in many countries and are considered an increasingly integral part of a nations’ elite sport performance strategy [7]. Sport schools aim to combine sport and education to offer student …

[PDF] Ayahuasca ceremonies, relationality, and inner-outer transformations to sustainability. Evidence from Takiwasi Center in Peru

D Manuel-Navarrete, S DeLuca, F Friso, M Politi - Ecosystems and People, 2024

The use of psychedelic substances is increasingly associated with nature-relatedness. We explore whether entheogenic uses of ayahuasca in settings co-produced between Indigenous and Western knowledges may also foster relationality and …

[PDF] Bhakti Blossoms: Tamil Poetry's Journey into Spiritual Depths, Unraveling Devotion and Cultural Significance

R Srinivasan, PS Aithal

… Three primary types of sadhanas exist; Karma yoga, Bhakti yoga and Jnana yoga— representing Selfless Work, devotion, to God and … Their teachings and compositions became integral to the development of Bhakti literature in Tamil. The …

[PDF] The Highest Good in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita: Knowledge, Happiness, and Freedom

R Majithia - 2024

… In the twentieth century, the text is at the center of a rallying cry for freedom from colonial rule from traditional quarters as well as from western educated ones such as Gandhi and Aurobindo.Thus both these texts seem to have a profound impact on …

ophy, school of social sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru university. Her main interests are in the areas of contemporary Indian philosophy and political philosophy. Puri has …

B Puri - Gandhi for the 21st Century

The book consists of six chapters—three by Bindu Puri and the other three by me. Our styles are different—the result perhaps of the different kinds of training we had received as students. But our interests coincide and frequently our arguments: Puri’s …

How did humanity emerge? Theories of the deep past have shaped our history and present, says The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence and Our Obsession with Human Origins by Stefanos Geroulanos. And these theories are self-serving fictions... Because so little is known or knowable, prehistory is more a narcissistic fantasy than a field of inquiry

https://timesofindia-indiatimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/our-prehistory-is-made-to-order-theories-about-early-humans-are-reflections-of-current-biases-agendas/?amp_js_v=0.1&amp_gsa=1#webview=1

Delegitimisation of all non-State institutions

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo's arrival in Pondicherry - the significance of 4th April Matrimandir.

The special opening allows the first ray of the rising sun to penetrate directly into the crystal at Matrimandir, an event that happens only once a year in this day. 

#Auroville

https://twitter.com/JayantiRavi/status/1775766211177197775?t=9_grEKDoek1xygOhJGd46w&s=19

"This little door on the eastern side of Matrimandir beholds a sacred memory for all those who love Sri Aurobindo. Only on the 4th of April, every year, this door opens during the sunrise. Every other day of the year, the door remains shut;.."  

#Auroville #SriAurobindo

https://twitter.com/JayantiRavi/status/1775766125265178763?t=l8sBtISQXCdTk8YcPswECw&s=19

If you live in a country and can freely call its government a dictatorship, it is certainly not a dictatorship.

https://twitter.com/MisraNityanand/status/1775101767027745110?t=QzQyjh6vGnwWgixeR6DRiw&s=19

While limited FoE is one feature of dictatorships, the two are not one and the same. 

What defines dictatorship is not the FoE, but the concentration of powers to one autocratic person or group, with weakened institutional constraints to what they can do. Even if they rule by the people’s popular choice.

As I said they are related but not one and the same. 

Totalitarianism and Dictatorship - related but not the same.

https://twitter.com/bhAratenduH/status/1775408081658052700?t=RXa0uyILxdNG9xpTZeRybw&s=19

Indeed, Totalitarianism emerges in an atomised society and acquires the shade of the prevalent political system. The most common form of totalitarianism in effect today is democratic totalitarianism.

Your view goes contrary to every single word I have read on the subject. Either we are talking about different things or you have something new to say on the subject that scholars have missed for a century.

Hannah Arendt, Alexis Tocqueville, J.L. Talmon, Tomislav Sunic to name a few. Diversity is not the symptom of an atomised society. I insist that we are talking about different things.

The totalitarian tendency is agnostic to ethnic composition because the breakdown of communities can and has happened in all kinds of societies.

https://twitter.com/infinitchy/status/1775438824308638113?t=TLeDyZLxaP8S3L8v5RuNwA&s=19

The route to totalitarianism need not necessarily be violent. It can be achieved through peaceful and perfectly legal means. The least talked about deleterious consequence of modern liberal democracy is delegitimisation of all non-State institutions. Democratic exceptionalism abhors any intermediary between the State and citizen. To explain, the State in a modern democratic polity is considered as 'the representative' of all citizens. Implicitly, it is expected that the citizens' primary and predominant loyalty should be to the State alone, making all non-State institutions illegitimate unless expressly sanctioned by the State. That is to say, all institutions exist upon the sufferance of the State. The constitutional and jurisprudential neglect of family which is the fundamental building block of any society is rather deliberate. For, the democratic State perceives family as a barrier in its direct equation with, nay control of citizens. No wonder that across all modern liberal democracies the institution of the family became the first casualty. The atomised and the disintegrating Western societies are living examples of the destruction wrought by the democratic statism. And democratic exceptionalism precedes democratic totalitarianism.

https://twitter.com/MNageswarRaoIPS/status/1775537337553801384?t=NcaXSFWQGyRPryctII2WkQ&s=19

Nice explanation but blaming democracy looks a bit harsh since in spirituality too the family can be a victim. Of course these are theoretical positions for in reality such neat detachment may not be possible. Further spiritual grounding provides multi-layered checks and balances. 

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1775588929292685521?t=cgML-dLtexVnQX-ax7EKmw&s=19

How do autorickshaw drivers (in Kolkata) perceive sexual harassment on public transport? Scroll.in

https://scroll.in/article/1065774/how-do-autorickshaw-drivers-in-kolkata-perceive-sexual-harassment-on-public-transport

[HTML] Society with Indian Characteristics: Caste, Class, and Species in Contemporary Retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa

JP Oliveira - Journal of Dharma Studies, 2024

This paper analyzes the construction of Indian society in retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa published in India between 2010 and 2020. I focus on the concepts of caste, class, and mythological species. Through discourse analysis of a corpus of retellings … 

[PDF] Mapping Campus Theatre Traditions: Shift from Colonial to Desi on the University of Delhi Campus1

K Singh

The University Campus, as a space, had always been an epicentre of cultural praxis. The inherent diversity in this space allows for vibrant debates about the processes of cultural production and consumption. What is the kind of theatre practice that forms …

[PDF] Theorising Decolonial Queerness: Connections, Definitions, Articulations

S BAKSHI - Essays on Decoloniality: Volume, 2024

The labour in addressing the meaning of decolonising knowledge calls forth an honest and thorough critical appraisal of the standardised canon of knowledge without eliding critical questions of privilege in terms of race, gender, sexuality, and …

[HTML] Islands and Beaches in Science and Technology Studies

W Anderson - Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2024

… My pragmatism, or perhaps equivocation, would prove controversial, especially among South Asian scholars understandably sensitive to fascist assertions of Hindutva. Some of them took me to task for mentioning alternative modernities (Abraham …

[HTML] India's Civilizational Imagination of Southeast Asia

U Das

… For instance, the state in India has so far oscillated between a Nehruvian and a Hindutva understanding of the Indian civilization (Chatterjee & Das, 2023). While both these imaginations agree on India’s civilizational greatness reserving a rightful …

Clip the blue bird: Discursive strategies of Hindutva digital mobilization against Twitter in India

KV Bhatia, P Arora - The Information Society, 2024

… 9) argument that online followers and supporters of the Hindutva ideology are diverse and “range from … Hindutva ideology will help unpack how they generate more participation, create diverse networks of followers, appeal to different …

INDIAN PANDEMIC ENTERTAINMENT AESTHETICS AND INFRASTRUCTURE

DS Mini - Media Industries in Crisis: What COVID Unmasked, 2024

The pandemic and quarantine restrictions following the COVID lockdown in India gave way to uncertainty, but also innovative media productions that mark the moment. Short films, diaristic accounts, public service announcements, and films used mobile …

Killing with Kindness: Can a Plague Cure a Plague?

ML Budde - Put Away Your Sword: Gospel Nonviolence in a Violent …, 2024

The world’s been a mess for so long that it’s understandable if you missed or have forgotten about one atrocity among others. On November 27, a report was made public—it spoke of the near-complete slaughter of a religious minority population yet …

[PDF] An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal

R MISTRY

The present research paper is undertaken to explore the diasporic sensibility in the fictional world of Rohinton Mistry. Consequently, the aim of this research is to probe into his works and discover the contemporary new world that unveiled up for the …

Indian Citizenship Revisited

M Majumdar - Social Change, 2024

… evidence-based arguments presented by the authors in these volumes, that recent changes in citizenship laws need to be understood in the light of their ideological and political embedding within a larger field of power, watered carefully …

Book review: Arkotong Longkumer, The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast

S Misra - 2024

… He identifies the prime cultural sites for Hindutva’s operations: the placing of Northeastern India and its indigenous ‘tribal’ religions within the ‘imaginative geography’ of Akhand Bharat, Hindutva’s interface with Christianity and Rani …

Bodies that Dance: Critical Frames of Reference

U Sarkar Munsi - Mapping Critical Dance Studies in India, 2024

Bodies are repositories—whether we like it or not. I, for one Aesthetics , exist in a body that hardly remembers a time when it did not carry any signature dance training. I am told I expressed the desire to enter a dance school when I was three years old …

The Modern and the Contemporary in the Context of Dance in India

U Sarkar Munsi - Mapping Critical Dance Studies in India, 2024

This chapter of the book wants to make identifiable the forms that exist and share the contemporary times, together with reference to the same geography—either in-situ or from some distant locations. Without aspiring to describe all forms that identified …

[PDF] Inter-faith Rituals: Rebuilding the Secular Nation state from the Margins

ナタラジャンマヒマ - 創価大学大学院紀要= The bulletin of the Graduate …, 2024

Is it possible to sustain secular character of a secular nation-state when the union government consciously weaponizes religion for its majoritarian and electoral politics? The present study explores how people positioned at the margins of a nation-state …

The Ups and Downs of Competing Power Rituals

UWE SKODA

With reference to Dasarā rituals in Nepal, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (1998, 577) proposes that “power rituals” in complex sociopolitical orders “express and dramatize social realities, but also... organize social groups by relating them with …

[PDF] The Indian Administration

BR Chinnala - Economic & Political Weekly, 2024

… These developments include (i) the Mandal assertion—a demand of reservations for the socially and economically backward communities in public institutions/ resources; (ii) the Mandir assertion— the Ram Rath Yatra led by powerful Hindutva …

[PDF] Rise of Hindu Nationalism Amongst Some Educated Middle Class Hindu Indians

メーラトュリカ - 創価大学大学院紀要= The bulletin of the Graduate …, 2024

This research discusses the history, and evolution of Hindu nationalism in India, while attempting to understand the different factors and processes leading to its rise. Using the process of Othering as its theoretical framework, this study explores how …

[HTML] Religion, Ecology and Hindu Nationalism in India

E Tomalin - Religion and Development, 2024

In this paper I examine the construction of Hinduism as inherently “environmentally friendly” within religions and ecology discourses and how this construction has been appropriated by the Hindu nationalist movement in India to serve ends that are at …