The Global Turn in Nationalism: The USA as a Battleground for Hinduism and Hindu Nationalism

Hindu nationalism operates on a global scale today. Evinced by the transnational networks of the Sangh Parivar and the replication of strategies such as amending textbooks and patriotic rewriting of history, politics and discourse of Hindu nationalism are not solely contained to the territorial boun...

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1. VerfasserIn: Kim, Sophie-Jung H. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: MDPI 2023
In: Religions
Jahr: 2023, Band: 14, Heft: 10
weitere Schlagwörter:B Hindu Nationalism
B counterpublic
B Migration
B deterritorial movement
B Hinduism
B 20th Century
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Zusammenfassung:Hindu nationalism operates on a global scale today. Evinced by the transnational networks of the Sangh Parivar and the replication of strategies such as amending textbooks and patriotic rewriting of history, politics and discourse of Hindu nationalism are not solely contained to the territorial boundary of the nation. In this globalized battle for and against Hindu nationalism, the United States of America serves as an important site. In light of this, this article puts together existing scholarship on diasporic Hindu nationalism with late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century deterritorial history of Indian nationalism to present a broader framework for historicizing Indian activism in the US. It argues that while long-distance Hindu nationalism in the US cannot be traced before the 1970s, examining the early experiences of Indian activists in the US offers useful insights with which to evaluate the ongoing battles of Hindu nationalism in the US and opens another field of enquiry: Hindutva’s counterpublic.
ISSN:2077-1444
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel14101265