scholarly journals HINDUTVA AND HINDU NATIONALISM

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-39
Author(s):  
Suchithra T.
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Hindu Nationalism ◽  
Ethnic Nationalism ◽  
Freedom Struggle ◽  
Liberal Nationalism ◽  
Revolutionary Nationalism ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Indian National Congress

In Europe the concept of nationalism emerged with the rise of nation state. In states like India nationalism emerged as a result of anti-colonial movement. Nationalism is nothing but feeling of belongingness or oneness. There are different kinds of nationalism. Ethnic nationalism, Expansionist nationalism, Revolutionary Nationalism, liberal nationalism, cultural nationalism and so on. There are two major kinds of nationalism emerged in India in different points of time and how nationalism converted over a period of time. The first kind of nationalism developed du ring our freedom struggle largely under the leadership of Indian National Congress, The second one is Hindu Nationalism. This paper is discussing about how Hindutva and Hindu Nationalism developed through exponents and organizations of Hindutva ideology.

Ayodhya Dispute and Responses of India’s Islamic Neighbors and Hindu Nationalism in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-236
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
Hindu Nationalism ◽  
Mahatma Gandhi ◽  
South Asian Country ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Independence Movements ◽  
Indian National Congress

India has been noted for its independence movements including the non-cooperation and civil disobedience movements under the leadership of the Indian National Congress in general and Mahatma Gandhi in particular. However, in this South Asian country, there is another kind of nationalism that roots in Hinduism. The objective of the article is to explain the nature of Hindu nationalism in India. To gain this aim, the author is going to implement three tasks including giving a brief overview of the Ayodhya dispute; reporting the reactions from India’s neighbors to the Ayodhya issue; and explaining the relations among the Ayodhya related legal fights and responses from Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as Hindu nationalism. As a result, the study is helpful to comprehend the politics of India and its nationalism. Received 25th September 2020; Revised 2nd January 2021; Accepted 20th February 2021

The Indian Freedom Struggle and the Kenyan Diaspora

Matatu ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
Pheroze Nowrojee
Keyword(s):  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Freedom Struggle ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Full Independence ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Self Rule ◽  
White Settlers ◽  
Freedom Movement ◽  
Indian National Congress

Abstract The connections between the Indian Freedom movement and the Kenyan Indian diaspora after the First World War led to the involvement of the Indian National Congress and Gandhi in the struggle of the Kenyan Indians for equality and equal treatment with the British white settlers in Kenya. The Congress considered that the success of the equality struggle in Kenya would also lead to equal treatment of Indians in India itself. This was consistent with the prevailing political goal of the freedom movement in India in 1919, which was self-rule through Dominion Status under the British Crown. But when the struggle of the Kenya Indians failed and equality was denied to them by the famous Devonshire Declaration in 1923, there the Indian freedom movement realized that this signalled unequal status and a denial of self-rule to India itself. Historic consequences followed. This was the turning point and over the years immediately after the Kenyan decision (1923–1929), the Indian National Congress changed its political aim from Dominion Status to Full Independence as a Republic, realized over the 17 years to 1947.

Home Rule for India

1919 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-305
Author(s):  
Graham H. Stuart
Keyword(s):  
Civil Service ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
Queen Victoria ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Office ◽  
National Congress ◽  
The Government ◽  
Indian National Congress

The epoch-marking proclamation issued by Queen Victoria in 1858 announced to the people of India that they were to be admitted freely and impartially to political office. The autocratic bureaucracy of foreigners, culminating in the régime of Lord Curzon, when only about 4 per cent of the members of the Indian civil service were natives, was hardly a fulfillment of the spirit of this proclamation. Nor did the peoples of India consider it such. The spirit of unrest finally took shape in the Indian National Congress, founded in 1885, to give expression to the ideas of the educated classes; and this body soon came to be regarded as the unofficial Indian parliament. Each year it brought forward a list of ills which the government of India as then organized could not hope to remedy.

Mobilization in a Mass Movement: Congress ‘Propaganda’ in the United Provinces (India), 1930—34

1975 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Pandey
Keyword(s):  
Mass Movement ◽  
The People ◽  
Constructive Work ◽  
National Congress ◽  
United Provinces ◽  
Indian National Congress

From 1919 to 1922 the Indian National Congress carried out its first country-wide programme of mass agitations against the British. For the next six or seven years the party concentrated on the electoral arena. By fits and starts, it also carried on a programme of so-called ‘constructive’ work among the mass of the people. This helped to maintain some of the popular contacts earlier established. Elections, and the bitter communal conflicts that were a feature of the mid-1920s, at least in the United Provinces (U.P.), forged other links.

India After the Coup

Worldview ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Oren
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Absolute Power ◽  
Democratic Regimes ◽  
The World ◽  
Presidential Decree ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Indian National Congress

Thousands of predawn arrests of opposition political figures and journalists, the suspension of civil liberties by presidential decree, the imposition of a rigid press censorship—thus in June, 1975, was signaled the end of Indian democracy. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's actions mean that the number of people in the world living under democratic regimes has been more than halved. Perhaps India's masses prefer bread to liberty, but they are likely to have neither. Having obtained absolute power, Mrs. Gandhi and her ruling Indian National Congress seem to have little idea of what it is to be used for.Apologists for the emergency say it was necessary to ward off a right-wing conspiracy against Mrs. Gandhi because of her efforts at reform. They note that most of those arrested since the emergency began are hoarders of food, manipulators of prices, and holders of money from secret deals.

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