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	Hindu nationalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hindu nationalism is the political and cultural expression, histriographical and political theories of Indian nationalism distinctive to Hindu society in India, which asserts being Hindu as not merely a religious identity, but a national identity.
		The main inspiration of Hindu nationalism arises from the glories of the Mauryan Empire and the Gupta Empire, under whom India was politically and military dominant and prosperous, and Hindu religion and culture at its greatest heights.
		The Partition of India outraged many Hindu nationalists, especially as millions of Hindus and Sikhs were forced to leave their homes in West Pakistan and East Pakistan, and hundreds of thousands of Hindus and Sikhs were killed during the process of migration and on the streets of cities by murderous mobs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hindu_Nationalism (2614 words)

	What is Wrong with "Hindu"? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Moreover, "Hindu" was a catch-all term which included traditions considered deviant or non-Vedic by the Arya Samaj (esp. Puranic, Tantric); in the 1881 census, the Arya Samaj even advised its members to register as non-Hindus.
		The version of the RSS's critics in the Hindu Mahasabha was and is that the RSS was just not brave enough to affirm its natural Hindu identity against the anti‑Hindu dictates of the opinion‑making establishment.
		Moreover, it would imply that "Hindu Rashtra", the professed goal of this Sangh leader, simply means "Indian state"; and this in turn would imply that the Hindutva movement is a bunch of buffoons working for the creation of a state which has already been created long ago.
	koenraadelst.bharatvani.org /books/bjp/section3.html (2702 words)

	Saffron Tigers dedicated to the cause of the Hindu-Rashtra.
		is a Hindu organization of Young, educated, fearless and robust Hindu students who are dedicated to the cause of the Hindu- Rashtra.We have pledged to die for the cause of Hindu-Rashtra and to liberate our mother from the clutches of dirty Muslims and Indian politicians.
		To the Hindus largely this country owes its fame and glory, its culture and art, knowledge, science and philosophy.
		Millions of Hindus were massacred and Hindu women were forced to remove their sindhoor and do Muslim rituals.
	www.hinduunity.org /saffrontigers/About_Us.html (572 words)

	The Role of Religious Fundamentalism in the Development of Fascist Movement in India
		Golwalkar's Super Hindu Race had no antagonism towards the British rulers who in fact were foreigners in the real sense of the term and who had given only misery, hunger, poverty, and death to multitudes of Indians, the vast majority of whom were Hindus.
		Today the champions of Hindu nationalisn are again bent upon fulfiling the same historical anti-national task of dividing the people of the country on the basis of religion specially when faced with the imperialist onslaught.
		Thus the scenario in the Hindu Rashtra will be that about 18 percent of its population consisting of all minorities without any civil and political rights will be forced to work on any wage and in any kind of situation.
	www.wpb.be /icm/00en/seminar/india_nd.html (4220 words)

	Ayodhya and After - Appendix 1 - Girilal Jain on Hindu Rashtra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hindus were just not in a position to assert the primacy of their civilization and they are still in no position to do so.
		The case for Hindu Rashtra rests on the failure of the Nehru model and its pull on the rise of a vast unprivileged intelligentsia, mobilization of vast masses as part of the democratic process and the modernization programme.
		The Hindu fight is not at all with Muslim; the fight is between Hindus anxious to renew themselves in the spirit of their civilization, and the state, Indian in name and not in spirit and the political and intellectual class trapped in the debris the British managed to bury us under before they left.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/ayodhya/apex1.htm (7375 words)

	The Hindu : Protohistory of Hindutva
		The Hindus, according to him, are not only a Rashtra, a Jati, but as a consequence of being both, own a common "sanskriti" and to whom India is "pitribhu" and "matribhu".
		The distinction between Hinduism and Hindutva is therefore evident; the former is a religious practice whereas the latter is conceived in communal terms.
		The main rallying point of Hindu nationalism is the loss and recovery of an idyllic past as represented by the Vedic society in which the Aryan ancestors had scaled unprecedented heights of civilisational achievements.
	www.hindu.com /br/2004/03/02/stories/2004030200311500.htm (861 words)

	Nilacharal - A Tamil entertainment ezine presenting interesting contents and useful services
		As for as the terms, Hindu Rashtra, Hindutva and pseudo secular are concerned it was none other than Mr.
		The tragedy is that the name of Hindu religion is being dragged for political goals of section of society.
		Hindu Rashtra is the undisputed goal of RSS and its progenies.
	www.nilacharal.com /news/view/v80.html (1199 words)

	[sacw] SACW #2 \| 26 July 02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is not accidental that the RSS had described Gujarat as "the=20 laboratory of the Hindu Rashtra".
		There will be a massive=20 effort by Hindu Rashtra to produce a will to forgetting, to make=20 things that happened disappear from memory, to fill up memory with=20 images of things that had not happened, to generate counterfeit=20 collective memories, amnesias.
		For they have been killed because=20 they are Muslims and not Hindus, and the fact of their being=20 capitalists or labourers, farmers or artisans, is subordinate to this=20 metanarrative.
	bridget.jatol.com /pipermail/sacw_insaf.net/2002/001396.html (6196 words)

	rediff.com: Anil Athale on the Sangh Parivar's version of a Hindu Rashtra
		Hindus are as intolerant as the rest of humanity, but since their basic philosophy itself is pluralism, Hindus seem tolerant of dissent within and differences without.
		The attempts of the VHP and Sangh Parivar at the regimentation of Hinduism are, therefore, not acceptable to the majority.
		The Parivar's idea of a Hindu Rashtra is an imitation of the concept of Islamic state and borrows heavily from the European concept of nation state.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/apr/10guest.htm (1084 words)

	What is this Hindu Rashtra ?
		The vision of a social order under the Hindu Rashtra is thus one which legitimizes both the inhuman caste oppression and the denial of elementary rights to women.
		The dual objective is: attempt to straitjacket the internal diversity amongst the 'Hindus'
		Or take the legend around the festival of Onam celebrated in Kerala: The people of Kerala celebrate the annual return of their favourite King Maha Bali, who is described in the Aryan version as the king of Asuras (demons) who had to be killed by Vishnu in the form of Vamanaavatara.
	www.countercurrents.org /comm-yechuri120803.htm (2172 words)

	IMC India - What Is This Hindu Rashtra ? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This attitude of the Hindu is reflected in the social, cultural and political activities of the Hindus.
		The Hindu tradition of freedom of thought and recognition of an alternate path or dissent are highly democratic in character.
		The realisation of Hindu Rashtra alone can maintain not only the secular and democratic values, but also the unity and integrity of this great country and inspire the entire people to suffer and sacrifice to bring about the all round development of our dear Motherland.
	india.indymedia.org /en/2003/09/7280.shtml (6125 words)

	INSAF - International South Asia Forum
		The philosophy of converting India into a Hindu Rashtra is neither newly born nor its Sainiks are marching on for fascist ends for the first time in our country.
		Today the champions of Hindu nationalisn are again bent upon fulfiling the same historical anti-national task of dividing the people of the country on the bases of religion specially when faced with the imperialist onslaught.
		Golwalkar’s Super Hindu Race seemed to have no antagonism towards the British rulers who in fact were foreigners in the real sense of the term and who had given only misery, hunger, poverty, and death to multitudes of Indians, the vast majority of whom were Hindus.
	www.insaf.net /central/insaf-old/sa2.html (3632 words)

	Nilacharal - A Tamil entertainment ezine presenting interesting contents and useful services
		It states that India is a Hindu Nation and that they are not out for a Hindu state or a theocratic state based on Hinduism.
		As Hindu rashtra itself is based on the elite culture and Brhaminical values, it does tantamount to theocracy.
		As Hindu Nation itself is the concept, which is a conceited way of putting forward the notion of Hindu elites rule supported by theocracy, albeit in the modern garb.
	www.nilacharal.com /news/view/v92.html (1767 words)

	Hurra ! The Hindu Rashtra is Here (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In different towns at different times, children — mainly from Hindu middleclass homes — have been unable to attend the school their parents went out of their way to admit them to for fear of the school being attacked, or the Christian priests running it being assaulted.
		In this connection, it is to be noted that the official establishment of a Hindu Rashtra is far better than the current arrangement of a Hindu Rashtra under the guise of `democracy' and `secularism'.
		There is also no need to lose sleep over the proposed Hindu Rashtra, for Indians have been suffering for the last fifty years under the Totalitarian neo-Kautilyan tyranny established by the Congress Brahmins.
	www.dalitstan.org /journal/hindutwa/htv000/hr_here.html (1284 words)

	Hindu rashtra & Indian nationalism
		He maintains that Muslims are converts from Hinduism and they should respect Hindu gods as their own and also that they should rename themselves as Muhammad Prasad or Muhammad Das.
		The next demand may be to convert to Hinduism and even if all Muslims convert to Hinduism and Christians stop proselytisation totally, the saffron family's aggressive postures will not change.
		Java was ruled by Hindus for a few centuries and this left a deep influence on indigenous Javanese culture.
	www.ambedkar.org /News/Hindurashtra.htm (1230 words)

	What is this Hindu Rashtra ? by Sitaram Yechuri 1993
		Certain advocates of fascistic Hindu Rashtra themselves, however, concede this and admit the fact that the book was re-published in several editions after 1942 (Modak, 1993).The fourth edition in certain places modifies the offensive language used in the first (for example, 'idiots' is replaced by 'misguided', etc.) but the content remains the same.
		Article 3 states: 'The aims and objects of the Sangh are to weld together the diverse groups within the Hindu Samaj and to revitalize and rejuvenate the same on the basis of its Dharma and Sanskriti, that it may achieve an all-sided development of the Bharatavarsha' (quoted by Curran, 1979, p.
		This urge to establish a 'Hindu Rashtra' drove the RSS to be a virtual ally of the British.
	www.sacw.net /DC/CommunalismCollection/ArticlesArchive/Yechuri1993.html (8170 words)

	Hindu rashtra at work
		The purpose of this intervention appears to arise from the fear that these facts might be construed as explaining the immediate context of the torching of the four bogies of the Sabarmati Express in which 58 people, including karsevaks, were killed by a Muslim mob at the Godhra station.
		This is in fact what every BJP or Sangh Parivar leader, including the home minister and the prime minister of this country, has been saying with regard to the carnage being perpetrated by the storm troopers of the Sangh Parivar.
		It is the state which would have given to the VHP the maximum number of artisans who have been engaged for years at Karsevakpuram in making the pillars for the temple.
	pd.cpim.org /2002/march10/03102002_gujarat_hindurashtra.htm (1636 words)

	Bajrang Dal - The Official Web Site
		The Hindu Society and the Faith have been kicked and insulted by various forces for the last fourteen hundred years.
		Being Hindu, the Bajrang Dal believes in validity of All Religions and Respect for all human beings, irrespective of caste, color, and religion (Aatmasvat Sarva Bhuteshu).
		Hindu pilgrims were attacked countless times, but no one dared to speak against the terrorists.
	www.hinduunity.org /bajrangdal.html (1204 words)

	BJP vis a vis Hindu revivalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The version of the RSS's critics in the Hindu Mahasabha was and is that the RSS was just not brave enough to affirm its natural Hindu identity against the anti‑Hindu dictates of the opinion‑making establishment.
		This way, the opposition between "Indian secular nationalism" and "Hindu communalism" is declared non-existent, essentially by replacing the latter position with the former: Kamath's conception of Hindutva is fully coterminous with Nehru's purely territorial patriotism.
		Moreover, it would imply that "Hindu Rashtra", the professed goal of this Sangh leader, simply means "Indian state"; and this in turn would imply that the Hindutva movement is a bunch of buffoons working for the creation of a state which has already been created long ago.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/bjp/section3.html (2691 words)

	What, exactly, is a Hindu rashtra? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of its aspirations would be the founding of a rashtra, or state, after its heart.
		Unlike in Islam, the state is not woven as a weft to the warp of religion in the cloth of Hindu life.
		A Hindu rashtra is unlikely to accept such discrimination between one set of citizens and another.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0103/30.html (587 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Aggressive VHP wants India renamed Hindustan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		New Delhi: Beginning on an aggressive note, Vishwa Hindu Parishad's (VHP) 'dharma sansad' meeting to decide the future course of Ram temple movement on February 22 demanded renaming of India as Hindustan and "restoration of honour of Hindu rashtra".
		"One crore Ram 'bhakts' (devotees) should be created for restoration of honour of Hindu 'rashtra' for which they should be ready to sacrifice anything, even their head," firebrand VHP leader Praveen Togadia said.
		It should be declared a Hindu rashtra", he said.
	news.indiainfo.com /2003/02/22/22vhp.html (178 words)

	India, or Hindu Rashtra?, The Milli Gazette, Vol.3 No.23, MG69 (1-15 Dec 02)
		BJP is the political progeny of RSS, whose goal it is to bring in Hindu Rashtra, and if possible to extend the frontiers of this Hindu Rashtra to areas where once Hindu kings ruled, and till Afghanistan, Burma and Sri Lanka are occupied by Indian forces to form Akhand Bharat (indivisible India).
		It is the restoration of Hindu rule to areas where at one time the glorious Hindu kings hoisted their flags.
		That movement gave ample opportunities to the warriors of Hindu Rashtra to use Lord Ram himself for vote, to spread venom against minorities and to consolidate a section of Hindu community for electoral purposes.
	www.milligazette.com /Archives/01122002/0112200254.htm (820 words)

	Hindu Rashtra-What It Means (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Though, because of external aggressions by the Muslims and later by Europeans, the political unity of this country was disturbed in the mediaeval period, the Hindu Rashtra never became extinct.
		India was born, as it were, in the womb of Hinduism, and her body was for long shaped by that religion.
		It was precisely for this reason that he decided to organize the Hindus who alone had their loyalty and intense love to the Motherland and for that purpose founded the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to rouse the spirit of patriotism and national ideals among the Hindus.
	www.hvk.org /articles/1202/178.html (1940 words)

	Why Oh, why do we not cite the example of Nepal while opposing Hindutva chauvinism? Anil ChamariaAnil Chamaria
		Nor is it necessary to elucidate further that a Hindu Rashtra is where the administration is based on the Hindu system.
		I also ran from political party to party, social organisation to organisation and activist to activist trying to convince them that the implications of a Hindu Rashtra should be brought to the attention of the people quoting the concrete instance of Nepal.However,both the big parties and the small activists refused to fall in line.
		In view of this ban on coversions 90 percent of the population is stated to be Hindu.
	www.sacw.net /2002/Nepal2003.html (860 words)

	The Hindu Rashtra Of Gujarat By V.B.Rawat
		However, it is another matter that the threat to Modi does not come from the so-called secular camp but the very follower of Hindu Rastra brigade, on whose back he rose to become the mascot of Hindutva in India.
		He is in the college, I have gone to meet some of the friends and introduce me that he comes from the institution run by an eminent person.
		But then who care for wages of the Dalits when according to Hindu Rastra concept they were to provide free labour in the service of the other three varnas.
	www.countercurrents.org /guj-rawat270905.htm (3231 words)

	'For Hindu rashtra democracy is a hurdle' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bhopal, August 10: Terming democracy in India as the `major hurdle' in formation of `Hindu rashtra' and `root cause of all problems', VHP senior vice-president Giriraj Kishore last night proposed an alternative system - like `guildism' in France - where every section selects their most suitable member to help form the government.
		The function saw participation of VHP leaders and all India Ulema Council Chairman Maulana Manzar Aarfi on the issue of Hindu rashtra and terrorism.
		India is already a Hindu rashtra because only a Hi...
	www.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=52458 (491 words)

	The Hindu : Carving a path to Hindu rashtra
		The Hindu : Carving a path to Hindu rashtra
		The moderate mask has been dropped and the Sangh has decided that an unequivocal Hindutva posture is its preferred route to achieving greater power and influence in the future.
		First, we have to be clear not only about the immense danger that the Sangh represents to Indian democracy's future but also about the path it is most likely to take in order to fulfil its ambition of establishing a Hindu Rashtra.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/2002/06/13/stories/2002061300941000.htm (989 words)

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