Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the Rss Reshaped India Andersen Walter
Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the Rss Reshaped India Andersen Walter The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a Hindu nationalist volunteer organization. Prime Minister Modi was himself a…
Specifikacia Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the Rss Reshaped India Andersen Walter
Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the Rss Reshaped India Andersen Walter
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a Hindu nationalist volunteer organization. Prime Minister Modi was himself a career RSS office-holder, or pracharak. It is also the parent of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
Yet the RSS has also come to resemble 'the Congress system', with a socially diverse membership containing a distinct left, right and center. This book explores how the RSS and its affiliates have benefitted from India's economic development and concurrent social dislocation, with rapid modernization creating a sense of rootlessness, disrupting traditional hierarchies, and attracting many upwardly mobile groups to the organization.India seems more willing than ever to accept the RSS's narrative of Hindu nationalism--one that seeks to assimilate Hindus into a common identity representing true 'Indianness'. The organization's most significant dilemma is how to