Hindutva and Secularism

Enrico Beltramini
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Enrico Beltramini: Notre Dame de Namur University

Chapter Chapter 6 in Interdisciplinary Reflections on South Asian Transitions, 2023, pp 89-103 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract At the core of Hindutva, the political ideology of Hindu nationalism, is the criticism of Indian secularism as a pseudo-secularism, a secularism that is not neutral but anti-majority. Against Indian secularism, which guarantees the neutrality of the state in the domain of religion, Hindutva raises the question of the colonial roots of secularism. The fight around secularism is not merely conceptual, rather a crucial element in Hindutva’s cultural project to redefine India along religious lines.

Keywords: Secular; India; Hindutva; Nationalism; Crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-36686-4_6

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