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  1. Sanatan Dharma: An Ideology or the Entire Hindu Community?

    Even V.D. Savarkar, the most influential ideologue of Hindutva, hardly conflated ‘sanatan dharma’ with the entire Hindu community, unlike the BJP's position on the current controversy over the term.

    thewire.in/history/sanatan-dha

    #SanatanaDharma #hindutva #SanatanDharma #BJP #savarkar #HinduMahasabha #caste #CasteDiscrimination #untouchability #hinduism #india

  2. Telugu cinema’s slide towards the right-wing

    Nikhil Siddhartha, a small-time Telugu actor, has earned the tag of a ‘pan-India’ star mainly by indulging Hindutva sentiments. But does this signal a larger political, ideological shift for Telugu cinema?

    #TeluguCinema #tollywood #cinema #hindutva #prabhas #JrNTR #RamCharan #AlluArjun #NikhilSiddhartha #SSRajamouli #VijayendraPrasad #RSS #BJP #adipurush #RRR #mythology #savarkar #propaganda #india

    thenewsminute.com/article/telu

  3. History in the Service of Hindutva

    Srinath Raghavan reviews Vinayak Chaturvedi's 'Hindutva and Violence: V.D. Savarkar and the Politics of History'.

    For Savarkar, history was a critical tool in a war to protect the Hindu nation. A new book examines the relationship between history and politics in Savarkar's thought and braids together the past and the present.

    #BookReview #savarkar #RSS #HinduMahasabha #VinayakChaturvedi #hindutva #HinduNationalism #nationalism #fascism #nazis #minorities #history #books #bookstodon #india

    theindiaforum.in/book-reviews/

  4. Maha govt to start Savarkar tourism circuit

    The circuit will comprise five places, which include his birthplace Bhagur in Nashik, his hostel room at Fergusson College, Pune, and a temple called Patit Pawan Mandir that he established in Ratnagiri district.

    #maharashtra #savarkar #MaharashtraGovt #HinduMahasabha #RSS #hindutva #BJP #HinduNationalism #GandhiAssassination #nashik #pune #ratnagiri #history #india

    hindustantimes.com/cities/mumb

  5. Hindu Mahasabha wants Savarkar's pictures to replace Gandhi's image on currency notes

    In an open letter to the Government of India, the Hindu Mahasabha also asked for renaming the road leading to the Parliament House after Savarkar.

    #savarkar #HinduMahasabha #RSS #MKGandhi #UnionGovt #money #currency #hindutva #BJP #HinduNationalism #FreedomStruggle #history #india

    deccanherald.com/national/nort