• DOI:10.1017/S0026749X17000051
Corpus ID: 149588748

Marketizing Hindutva: The state, society, and markets in Hindu nationalism

@article{Chacko2018MarketizingHT,
  title={Marketizing Hindutva: The state, society, and markets in Hindu nationalism},
  author={P. Chacko},
  journal={Modern Asian Studies},
  year={2018},
  volume={53},
  pages={377 - 410}
}

• P. Chacko
• Published 2018
• Political Science
• Modern Asian Studies

Abstract The embrace of markets and globalization by radical political parties is often taken as reflecting and facilitating the moderation of their ideologies. This article considers the case of Hindu nationalism, or Hindutva, in India. It is argued that, rather than resulting in the moderation of Hindu nationalism, mainstream economic ideas are adopted and adapted by its proponents to further the Hindutva project. Hence, until the 1990s, the Hindu nationalist political party, the Bharatiya… Expand

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