The public face of Hindu nationalism
@article{Mukta2000ThePF, title={The public face of Hindu nationalism}, author={Parita Mukta}, journal={Ethnic and Racial Studies}, year={2000}, volume={23}, pages={442 - 466} }
This article maps some of the salient ways in which the tenets of Hindu nationalism are being disseminated and made acceptable within British politics and within the core of social living among various communities in Britain. It examines specific institutional sites through which a politicized Hindutva community is forged: the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (UK), the vernacular press, and the Swaminarayan temple in north London. It argues that the “familiar-familial” space occupied by religious…
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