Hindutva

See: Ethno-Nationalism, Hindu Nationalism, India, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, SAGE Publishing, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Bharatiya Janata Party, Frontline (Magazine), Sangh Parivar, Fascism in Europe, A. G. Noorani.

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(Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva Retrieved:2024-11-2.
- Hindutva () is a political ideology encompassing the cultural justification of Hindu nationalism and the belief in establishing Hindu hegemony within India.^[1] ^[2]^[3] The political ideology was formulated by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1922. It is used by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), the current ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other organisations, collectively called the Sangh Parivar.
  Inspired by European fascism, the Hindutva movement has been variously described as a variant of right-wing extremism, as "almost fascist in the classical sense", adhering to a concept of homogenised majority and cultural hegemony^[4] ^[5] and as a separatist ideology. Nevertheless, some analysts dispute the identification of Hindutva with fascism and suggest Hindutva is an extreme form of conservatism or ethno-nationalism.^[6]

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