The rise from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was a lot more than an ordinary electoral phenomenon: it brought to the fore two contrasting views of nationhood: between those that saw modern India in terms of secular republicanism and on the other hand were those that sought to blend technological modernity with the country’s Hindu inheritance. The Right’s ascendancy and the debates that followed it, anticipated many of the issues that find representation today in the United States and Europe.

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The phenomenon of Hindu nationalism was also a profound intellectual challenge towards the loose Left-liberal consensus that had prevailed in India since Jawaharlal Nehru became Prime Minister in 1947. The thought of Hindutva and the politics character of the BJP have been carefully scrutinised by scholars, and the impulse has been to look at India’s Right-wing politics as either a variant of fascism or only a collection of sectarian prejudices.

Actually, the inspiration for the Right in India has come from multiple and often contradictory sources, like the influence of individuals such as for example Sarvarkar, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo, not forgetting the Arya Samaj motion.

This collection is an try to showcase the phenomenon of Hindu nationalism in terms of how it perceives itself. Lots of the worries that drive the Indian Best can be found in the country’s nationalist culture. In trying to locate a number of the tips, attitudes and values define the Indian Best, Awakening Bharat Mata also seeks to identify the nature of Indian conservatism and recognize its similarities and variations with political believed in the Western.

This book isn’t about Hindu nationalism in power but being a social and political movement and its own aim is to encourage a more informed knowledge of an idea which will remain relevant in Indian life far beyond victories and defeats in elections.