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In the present Indian sociopolitical scenario, a large number of dalit castes have become the main players in the electoral arena and politically mobilizing them has become a compulsion of all political parties. The strong desire of these castes to assert their identity based on their sense of pastness is being profitably encashed by many political parties who are appropriating their heroes and recreating their histories to suit their political ideology and thereby politically mobilizing them. This is especially true in UP and Bihar where society is still divided on caste lines and the lower castes are still oppressed.
Fascinating Hindutva examines how, aided by other Hindutva forces like RSS and VHP, the strategies of BJP for mobilizing dalits rests on reinterpreting their Hindu past and unifying them under the metanarrative of Hindutva. It is an exploration of the fascinating tactics used by the Hindutva forces to politically mobilize individual dalit castes like the Nishads, Musahars, and Dusadhs by saffronising their heroes.
Making of a Warring Hero: Hindutva Politics of Memory and Forgetting
Making of a Warring Hero: Hindutva Politics of Memory and Forgetting
Suhaldev has been reincarnated in the Pasi community to rout out vidharmies (anti-religious people) from the soil of our nation.
In the last chapter we saw how the BJP is trying to enter into the communal spaces present in the remembered and mythic past of Dalit castes and politically mobilising them when the communal moment is favourable. In this chapter we will study in detail how this strategy is being implemented in the Bahraich region of UP in Chittora village. In the ‘Introduction’, we had discussed how the Hindutva forces are now changing their political strategy by ...
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