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The rise of communalism in recent years as the major claimant to power in Indian politics has posed a serious challenge to the survival of democracy and is even threatening the fabric of the Constitution. Coupled with the fact that political discourse in the international arena has been increasingly using the language of religion, this phenomenon has posed a serious challenge to human rights movements worldwide. The seventeen original essays in this volume traverse a large canvas and critically interrogate Hindutva from multiple vantage points in the light of recent national and international political events.
Globalization and Communalism: Locating Contemporary Political Discourse in the Context of Liberalization1
Globalization and Communalism: Locating Contemporary Political Discourse in the Context of Liberalization1
It is now over over 10 years since the idea of a ‘socialistic pattern’ of development, the model that the Indian ruling classes had adopted at the dawn of independence (Nehruvian socialism), and the rhetoric associated with it were officially given up. On 21 July 1991, Finance Minister, Manmohan Singh, obtained parliamentary sanction for his economic policy resolution.2 The decade also witnessed a rise in the use of idioms that accord no importance to the inequities that exist in the socio-economic order that was perpetuated by the elite who captured the Indian state apparatus at the time of independence. It is, ...
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