Chosen trauma and saffronization of India

Raja Qaiser Ahmed, Maryum Tamoor, Muhammad Waqas Saleem and Summar Iqbal Babar

International Area Studies Review, 2022, vol. 25, issue 1, 36-49

Abstract: The research undertakes the structural transformation of India by the ideology of Hindutva embodied by the contemporary government of the Bhartiya Janata Party. This study is a first of its kind as it attempts to decipher the genesis of this metamorphosis from a psychoanalytical perspective. India has been accredited as a stalwart of democracy and an uploader of an inclusive multicultural and multireligious society. The interplay of Hindu nationalist elements and reinvigoration of past experiences supplemented by historical myths and present ontological insecurities has consequently plagued the secular fabric of India. The study further explicates all the undercurrents and nuances that underscore the ideology of Hindutva, the proselytized culture of victimization and indigenization in society resultantly impacting the society and relations of state in the region.

Keywords: saffronization; Hindutva; Vedic era; Ayodhya temple; majoritarianism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/22338659211047167

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