Absolute Cultural Reterritorialization Of Imagi-native Geo-Political Boundaries Instead Of Deterritorialization: The (Il)legitimacy Of Article 371 (A-J) After Scrapping Article 370 Of The Indian Constitution

Akhar Bandyopadhyay ⤡

Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay ⤡

Posted on 20th April, 2021

Updated on 6th December, 2021

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33220.96641

License: CC BY 4.0

Abstract

The article advocates for the abrogation of Article 371 (A-J) of the Indian Constitution, following the 2019 revocation of Article 370, to advance Hindutva-driven cultural nationalism. Framed as an appeal to India’s President, it argues that Article 371’s special provisions for states like Nagaland and Mizoram perpetuate regional diversity, undermining the vision of a mono-religious, mono-cultural Hindu rashtra. Drawing on Wittgenstein, Anderson, Said, and Foucault, and employing a deconstructive methodology, the authors critique the “Western” constitutional framework for fostering territorial nationalism over cultural homogeneity. They propose absolute cultural reterritorialization to erase imagined geo-political boundaries, subsuming diverse regions into a unified Hindu nation-state. The article questions the legitimacy of Article 371, claiming it obstructs Hindutva’s exclusivist ideology, and calls for a singular national identity rooted in Aryan cultural heritage, dismissing Nehruvian pluralism as antithetical to this goal

This letter-paper questions the legitimacy of Article 371 of Indian Constitution after the revoking of Article 370 by the Bharatiya Janata Party (5 August 2019). The paper traces the history of all the Indian federal States, which are listed in Article 371 with a special emphasis on Jammu and Kashmir.

See also:

“Identity Confusion” VIEW HERE ⤡

“Language: From I-Dentity to My-Dentity VIEW HERE ⤡

IF ARTICLE 370 IS REVOKED, WHY NOT ARTICLE 371 OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION? VIEW HERE ⤡ @academia.edu

IF ARTICLE 370 IS REVOKED, WHY NOT ARTICLE 371 OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION? VIEW HERE ⤡ @researchgate

Akhar Bandyopadhyay

The HonourablePresident,

The Republic ofIndia,

Rashtrapati Bhavan,

New Delhi-110004

Sub: An appeal for scrapping the Article 371 (A-J) in defence of cultural nationalism: Save Hindutva

Respected Ācārya,

First of all, we must thank you all for scrapping the Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. For the sake of Uniform Civil and Political Code, there should not be any positive or negative discriminatory rules and regulations within the ambit of International Law and jurisprudence.

The subject-matter of the present letter concerns the West-mimicking and hybrid “Constitution” of India, or rather, two specific Articles in it: Article 370 and Article 371 (A-J). As evident from our previous letters addressed to you, we are staunch and sturdy advocates of the Hindutva cultural nationalism as propagated by venerable Guruji M.S. Golwalkar, set against the utterly fake Nehruvian ideal of democratic, territorial nationalism, which implies “…a certain tolerance of others…

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