AN ANTI-INDIAN NATIONALIST IDEOLOGY
Hindutva is a nationalist ideology, based on
a modern day version of centralized intolerant Hinduism. It has nothing to do
with a historical tradition of spiritual practices that we call Hinduism. Such
a centralized and chauvinistic Hinduism - Hindutva - has been brought to the
fore front in today by a group of political organizations called the
"Sangh Parivar " (Sangh Family) - consisting of the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteers Association - the mother organization
after which the label Sangh Parivar is coined), the Bharatiya Janata Party
(Indian People Party - Hindutva's constitutional front that fights elections
etc.), the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP - World Hindu Council - the formations
activist front), the Shiv Sena (the fascist front), the VHP of America
(Hindutva's overseas arm) and the Hindu Students Councils (VHP of America's
student wing).
Presented below are a set of readings that
follow the theme of distinction between Hinduism and Hindutva. Such a
distinction is important because the latter, Hindutva, has a history of blood
letting - from the murder of Mahatma Gandhi (killed by a Hindutva ideologue,
Nathuram Godse) to the more than 20,000 lives claimed in communal violence in
India since 1950.
- Hindutva - an ideology critique
- Hindutva - an institutional biography
- Hindutva in North America
- Hindutva
and Current Indian Politics
- AB Vajpayee Remembers RSS Days - In the Belly of the Beast: The Hindu Supremacist
RSS and BJP of India
An Insider's story - Pehle Paisa, Phir Bhagwan: The Saffron
Dollar
- Jan Sangh: The BJP's Predecessor by Bipan
Chandra
- Hindutva Offensive Social Roots: Characterisation
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