RELG 356 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Fundamentalism, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, M. S. Golwalkar

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 356
• Professor: Davesh Soneji

Document Summary

Contemporary hindu nationalist movement right wing hinduism/hindu fundamentalism. Political, cultural, social manifestations with fundamentalist rootings. Founder of this hindu nationalism were working when gandhi was alive. Founded around 1925 by kb hedgewar, was a brahmin that decided that indian nationalism needed an organization. His views differed from gandhi"s views of gandhian nationalism. Hedgewar believed that what gandhi was saying about nature of postcolonial state was not an ideal vision of india; he didn"t really provide an alternative. Golwalker gave the alternative; largely responsible for ideological development of the. Looked up to vd savarkar anticolonial nationalism diff than what gandhi was doing. Bring back the principles & values of hinduness (hindutva) Focus on physicality, militancy, asceticism, sectarian membership. Hindutva is now a gloss for the hindu nationalist movement. Identities of hindus had become soiled/degenerate bc of outside influences. Not a political org like the congress party; more of a cultural/social reform org that eventually became political.