Posted on 22/01/2024 (GMT 08:00 hrs)
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Introduction
The day’s 22nd January, 2024. The nation-state of India is witnessing the worst day in its history. The “Ram Temple” in Ayodhya is being inaugurated by an incumbent Prime Minister of a Constitutionally Secular nation! What a sorry, sad, extremely saddening, disheartening state of affairs. The Idea of India as posed by the stalwarts such as Gandhi, Ambedkar, Bhagat Singh and others lay in the dust, trampled by the cacophonous, commodified spectacle of the Hindutvavadin’s dream-project: the undivided Hindu nation-state. It is nothing more than a politics of exclusion, of getting hold of the electorate by sheer money and muscle power.
It does not tolerate dissenters’ voices. But in doing so, is it inadvertently creating divides within the so-called Hindu community (if there is any such thing at all!) itself?
Can we go back to the scriptures to filter out “what’s really there”? Or should we just storm the headquarters of Hindutva by exposing the uncontradictory contradictions of the imaginary, ethnographic Hindutva genealogical fantasy?
The following paper deals with the narratives on the disputed Rama Temple issue as posed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and opposed by the certain Hindu saints.
The polemic is depicted here to show the heterogeneous nature of the umbrella term (so-called) “Hindutva” that defeats the struggle for homogenizing “Hindu Identity” by the Sangh Parivar.
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