Hindu Nationalism and the Converging, Diverging and Intersecting Identities of Caste and Race in India: Dialogue, Dilemma and Discourse

This essay unpacks how Hindu nationalism has understood the concepts of caste and race through its ideologues? textual strategies. It is divided into three sections. The initial section uncovers how Hindu nationalism?s dialogue with the colonial framework of knowledge produced several conceptual dil...

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Main Author: Guha, Ayan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2025
In: Journal of Asian and African studies
Year: 2025, Volume: 60, Issue: 8, Pages: 5002-5016
Further subjects:B Hindutva
B Hindu Nationalism
B Race
B Caste
B Reform
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Summary:This essay unpacks how Hindu nationalism has understood the concepts of caste and race through its ideologues? textual strategies. It is divided into three sections. The initial section uncovers how Hindu nationalism?s dialogue with the colonial framework of knowledge produced several conceptual dilemmas inconsistent with its core objectives. The second part demonstrates how to counter such dilemmas proponents Hindu nationalists indulged in myriad intellectual manoeuvres to arrive at such notions of the interrelationship between caste and race, which are complimentary to its principal agenda. The final section unravels how their intellectual strategies produced a largely conservative outlook of passive reformism.
ISSN:1745-2538
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Asian and African studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/00219096241275409