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URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-90862
URL: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/9086
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The Demonic and the Seductive in Religious Nationalism : Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and the Rites of Exorcism in Secularizing South Asia
Weitere Beteiligte (Hrsg. etc.): Prof. Subrata K. Mitra, PhD (Rochester)
Quelle:
(2009) No. 44, February 2009; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
pdf-Format:
Dokument 1.pdf (929 KB)
Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch):
Nation-Building , Savarkar , Hindutva , Political Hinduism
Institut:
Südasien Institut (SAI)
DDC-Sachgruppe:
Politik
Dokumentart:
Aufsatz
ISBN:
1617-5069
Sprache:
Englisch
Erstellungsjahr:
2009
Publikationsdatum:
24.02.2009
Kurzfassung in Englisch:
The relationship between religion and nationalism is explored in this paper which takes Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as its core focus of analysis. Given the incomplete process of nation-building in the case of India and the intrinsic challenge of how to cultivate a nationalism when the sense of a nation and nationality is lacking, Nandy discusses Savarkar’s idea of Hindutva and the use of religion as a vehicle of nation-building. This, despite Savarkar’s being a non-believer. Nandy explores parallels with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, whose project of nation and state-building is also seen in terms of political categories that were drawn from the Western experience and ideal of the Westphalian state.
Exploring the love-hate relationship with Savarkar that is prevalent in contemporary India, Nandy probes the concerted attempt to demonise Savarkar and asks whether this is yet another means by which a young nation seeks to exorcise its past?
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