An Exploration of Christianity in Northeast India in the Emerging Political Context: Trials and Opportunities

In the past years, the Northeast people linked the BJP with the principle of Hindutwa (a Hindu way of life) that made it unattractive for them. In recent years, the Party surprisingly takes the area like wildfire by dictating who is to rule in many states. Now, switching from old history to that of...

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Main Author: Ralte, Lalfakawma (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2022
In: Transformation
Year: 2022, Volume: 39, Issue: 3, Pages: 193-204
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CH Christianity and Society
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBM Asia
SA Church law; state-church law
Further subjects:B Resistance
B ethnographic
B Friction
B Regionalism
B state-evading
B Opportunities
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Summary:In the past years, the Northeast people linked the BJP with the principle of Hindutwa (a Hindu way of life) that made it unattractive for them. In recent years, the Party surprisingly takes the area like wildfire by dictating who is to rule in many states. Now, switching from old history to that of a fresher one, a historian may significantly raise a question in this transition: “Is the Hindu way of life entering the region with the emergence of the BJP?” One perception which robustly stands against this question is that the native inhabitants view the coming of the BJP in the Northeast as “a politics of convenience and expediency” to boost up their deprived economic situations. They do not perceive it as a politic of conviction to and assurance for the BJP.
ISSN:1759-8931
Contains:Enthalten in: Transformation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/02653788221112666