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Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930 - Constructing Nation and History (Paperback)
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Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930 - Constructing Nation and History (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History
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Hindu nationalism has emerged as a political ideology represented
by the Hindu Mahasabha. This book explores the campaign for Hindu
unity and organisation in the context of the Hindu-Muslim conflict
in colonial north India in the early twentieth century. It argues
that India's partition in 1947 was a result of the campaign and
politics of the Hindu rightwing rather than the Islamist politics
of the Muslim League alone. The book explains that the Mahasabha
articulated Hindu nationalist ideology as a means of constructing a
distinct Hindu political identity and unity among the Hindus in
conflict with the Muslims in the country. It looks at the
Mahasabha's ambivalence with the Indian National Congress due to an
extreme ideological opposition, and goes on to argue that the
Mahasabha had its ideological focus on an anti-Muslim antagonism
rather than the anti-British struggle for India's independence,
adding to the difficulties in the negotiations on Hindu-Muslim
representation in the country. The book suggests that the Mahasabha
had a limited class and regional base and was unable to generate
much in the way of a mass movement of its own, but developed a
quasi-military wing, besides its involvement in a number of popular
campaigns. Bridging the gap in Indian historiography by focusing on
the development and evolution of Hindu nationalism in its formative
period, this book is a useful study for students and scholars of
Asian Studies and Political History.
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