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Home  Varshapratipada - April 2007
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Editorial - Varshapratipada 5109
Over past 60 years, experts on India have contested fiercely on the question: Why should India exist? For some the answer lies in advancing the cause of Indian civilization. For others, India is no different from so many other nations, it has no civilizational purpose, and that it exists merely to meet the utilitarian needs of her people. Many in this group go to the extent of arguing that dismantling of India is a ...
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| Hindutva in the Present-day Context |
Hindutva in the Present-day Context
To discuss ‘Hindutva in the present-day context' is both, simple and difficult at the same time. Simple because ample has already been and is still being said about Hindutva by its adversaries as also its advocates. Difficult because it is hard to sift the ocean of literature about Hindutva and interpret it in the present-day context.
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| Hindutva Not a Way of Life |
Hindutva Not a Way of Life
The concept of Hindutva got evolved in British period as Indian Nationalism. Dayanand Saraswati, Swami Vivekanand, Swami Shraddhanand, Lala Lajpatrai, Masurkar Maharaj propounded various ideas which interpreted Hindutva as Nationalism of Hindu people and started various movements to put their ideas in practice. The concept was more concerned with Nationalism a...
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| Alternative to Govt. Control of Hindu Mathas and Temples |
Alternative to Govt Control of Hindu Math and Temples
Despite initial reluctance of the judiciary during the British colonial rule, temples and mathas came under more and more intrusive judicial intervention even in the colonial days. This was largely because of petty minded quarrels among influential devotees (a classic example is the Vaishnavas' long and bitter infighting in South India), greedy sevadars, hereditary beneficiaries of devotee offerings to the deity and...
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| Re-defining and positioning of Hindutva for the Global Age |
Re-defining and positioning “Hindutva” for the Global Age
The human race starting as nomadic tribal groups of people in prehistoric times has arrived in the Global Age today meanwhile undergoing many transformations beginning with survival instincts thru development of ideas, ideologies, isms and religions guiding their behaviors as individuals, families and societies. These changes were aimed at the enhancement of their living conditions, fulfillment of indi...
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| Editorial - Varshapratipada 5109 |
Over past 60 years, experts on India have contested fiercely on the question: Why should India exist? For some the answer lies in advancing the cause of Indian civilization. For others, India is no different from so many other nations, it has no civilizational purpose, and that it exists merely to meet the utilitarian needs of her people. Many in this group go to the extent of arguing that dismantling of India is a historical imperative. Some consider India as a contested space with unsettled destiny.
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