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Jul 3, 2021 · Non-Hindu minorities are more populist than the Hindus, but considerably less Hindu nationalist. The latter is consistent with the existing voting statistics that show, for example, that in 2014 and 2019, only 8% of Muslims voted for the BJP.
- Ashutosh Varshney, Srikrishna Ayyangar, Siddharth Swaminathan
- 2021
Jan 29, 2019 · On the one hand, this reimaging of India as a Hindu nation marginalizes non-Hindu Indians, in particular Muslims and Christians, as well as Hindus who oppose this politicization of Hinduism.
- Thorsten Alexander Wojczewski
- 2020
Dec 13, 2018 · White supremacy and Hindu nationalism have common roots going back to the 19th-century idea of the ‘Aryan race’.
- Aadita Chaudhury
If populism can be described in the terms above, how about Hindu nationalism, the other key conceptual category in this article? Hindu nationalism is the idea that India as a nation is primarily owned by its religious majority, the Hindus, and the non-Hindu minorities should at best have a secondary status. Accord-
- Ashutosh Varshney, Srikrishna Ayyangar, Siddharth Swaminathan
- 2021
Jan 13, 2023 · This chapter discusses the relationship between Hinduism—or more properly Hindutva—and populism in India. It begins by discussing the history of the nation-state of India and its relationship with Hinduism and the Hindutva Hindu Nationalist movement.
Apr 28, 2021 · It shows that a secular democracy like India is not a better protector of religious minorities than a non-democratic regime like China. They are equally bad but, whereas in India, much of the violence is in communal riots, in China, there is state violence against religious minorities.
Jul 16, 2020 · Taking the study of populism beyond the familiar geographies of Europe and the Americas, this article explores how populism undermines fragile democracies in difficult neighbourhoods, particularly in Turkey, India and Israel, each marked by profound social, ethnonational and religious divisions.
