Saturday, December 30, 2023

Political Hinduism and Vishwa Guru

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Modern Western thought is greatly indebted to Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) occupies almost an equivalent position in India. Nietzsche rakes up philosophical and psychological problems while #SriAurobindo solves them in The Life Divine and The Future Poetry.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1740971076489031801?t=CFTduZAvrdplGcTj62DVOg&s=19

One of the most important contemporary questions at the intersection of civilization & politics is the question of political Hinduism and its various contours.

@HindolSengupta's book 'Soul and Sword' attempts to provide a history of the movement & capture its narrative identity.

https://twitter.com/brhat_in/status/1741098625663750426?t=_97XSMW_JZJSilusIF921Q&s=19

True Story of Gyanvapi, Mughals & Tipu Sultan | @vikramsampath & I engaged by  @Sanjay_Dixit  at @JaipurDialogues.

We talk about our upcoming books and our new found body “Foundation for Indian Historical & Cultural Research” (FIHCR)

youtu.be/ghM81bxCQy8?si… via @YouTube

https://twitter.com/Aabhas24/status/1741127589559935308?t=jiqibbRdpgQovX_un3NcrA&s=19

[PDF] Antrocom Journal of Anthropology

R Raikwar, KKN Sharma
… While academic pressure is an integral part of the education system, socio-cultural and psychological factors exacerbate stress and anxiety among adolescent girls. Addressing these factors through parental and social support, improved time …

Nietzschean, Feminist, and Embodied Perspectives on the Presocratics: Philosophy as Partnership

JI Breidenstein Jr - 2023
… Nietzsche is integral to both the philosophical and scholarly aspects of this book, and just as his emphasis that, in contrast to the paradigm… that I take a yoga class at the Yoga Garden in Narberth. From my first classes with Mark Nelson and the …

[PDF] Preserving the Legacy of the Vishwa Guru: Approaches to Sustain and Promote Ancient Indian Knowledge for Global Well-being

A Shokeen - dƍƆƅƈ Ƌ 9 ƑƆ, 2023
… like yoga and meditation emphasize the importance of inner peace, self-awareness, and emotional balancing as the key principles of mental and emotional wellbeing. Patanjali Yoga Sutras provide a structured framework for practicing yoga … and …

[PDF] Challenges in Communication and Dissemination of Traditional Knowledge

D Das, RT Noorain - dƍƆƅƈ Ƌ 9 ƑƆ, 2023
… Besides, Indian yoga has also found a place in the West as a panacea for emotional well-being. The Harappan civilisation bears … an integral part of the academic curriculum wherein students shall be exposed to Indian knowledge …

[PDF] Embedding Bhartiya Knowledge System for Futuristic Education

R Sharma, S Garg - dƍƆƅƈ Ƌ 9 ƑƆ, 2023
… This knowledge system includes traditional practices, philosophies, and sciences that have been integral to the cultural, … Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, written around 200 CE, form the basis of classical yoga philosophy. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras form …

[PDF] Integrating Bhartiya Knowledge System in the Teaching-learning Framework for Holistic Development in Higher Education Institutions

AD Rroy, B Rajkhowa - dƍƆƅƈ Ƌ 9 ƑƆ, 2023
… : The practice of Yoga, a gem in the treasure trove of the BKS, emphasizes the integration of mind, body, and spirit. Yoga provides a holistic … Reflection during and after learning which is an integral part of the learning would help in the analysis …

[PDF] Radical Observation: A series of awareness exercises for developing inter-relationalities with natural world ecosystems

D Solomon - Journal of Delta Urbanism, 2023
… The objective of Radical Observation practice is to evolve into knowledgeable stewards by grasping the patterns and rhythms of an ecosystem, and to view oneself as an integral part of that environment ie as part of the community. Crucially, Radical …

[PDF] REDISCOVERING PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES IN THE CONTEXT OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

S Sharma, P Devi, JP Singh, MS Sharma - Journal of Research Administration, 2023
… It has previously been mentioned that yoga helps to harmonize the mind by liberating it from attraction and repulsion. Therefore, without purity, there is frequent mental turmoil, which prevents man from thinking about Alma. Purity generates …

[PDF] Media Framing of Human Rights Violations: Unpacking Indian Radical Nationalist Policies

HMT Idrees, M Javed - European Review Of Applied Sociology, 2023
… This religious radicalization against Muslims has its roots in the Hindutva ideology, which began in 1928. However, the Hindutva ideology gained major recognition in 2014, when the BJP came to power under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra …

Navigating the Complex Landscape of Hinduisation of Adivasis: A Study from Jharkhand

A Singh - 아시아연구, 2023
The process of Hinduisation, marked by the absorption of indigenous Adivasi communities into Hinduism, is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. Based on empirical data and grounded in literature, this article explores the intricacies of …

[PDF] What explains the political right's ascendancy to global power?

D Mohan - The Wire, 2023
… There is a wave of rise in religious conservatism or religious orthodoxy (from Hindutva to Orthodox Islam to Evangelical Catholicism) that aided the rise of each of the leaders who either belonged to political parties or to orthodox-religious based …

Dethroned: the downfall of India's princely states: by John Zubrzycki, London, Hurst, 2023, 360 pp.,£ 25 (hardback), ISBN 9781805260530

R Payne - 2023
… While Nehru was making no secret of his abhorrence of feudal autocracy, the father of Hindutva, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, saw the states as representing the true India, ‘portals to a pure, ancient past’, and even as ‘the foundation on which the …

Law's terra, race, and the will to empire

diane U+ 16DE - Transnational Legal Theory, 2023
Mawani has penned a breathtaking book that challenges the terra-centric understanding of modern (Western) law through an anti-colonial narrative of a ship, its passengers, and the ambitiously defiant journey they took together across the …

Parliament of the World’s Religions: Time to counter the heinous propaganda against Bharat by leftists #Bharat #SanatanaDharma Read via @eOrganiser

https://twitter.com/eOrganiser/status/1741134394235253179?t=Dorpgb1GoO2G0t9WzSAD-g&s=19

EU funded project destroyed by callous new planning team

This forest plantation went through rigorous planning process in Auroville. Indigenous, slow-growing evergreen tree species, such as the ebony in the video, are now being ripped out of the ground by bulldozers. What a devastating loss for Auroville, Tamil Nadu, and India. These trees deserve utmost respect and consideration! Why is the Auroville Foundation secretary, Jayanti Ravi, ordering the destruction of Tamil Nadu's precious forest ecosystems in Auroville? For over 50 years these lands have been nurtured into thriving forests by persons dedicated to the longevity of the Auroville project and the health of the land. It takes only thirty minutes for a bulldozer to push it all down.

https://twitter.com/aurovilleunity/status/1741078405603356690?t=gnEgT0l--tb2gDzKRHiDwg&s=19

Saturday, November 04, 2023

Savarkar strongly promoted Satyarth Prakash

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF-2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006), and President, Savitri Era Party (2007).

[HTML] Violent Modernity: Brawls in the Waiting Room of History

J Bartelson - Global Intellectual History, 2023
… Footnote 30 It has also been shown that Savarkar had immersed himself thoroughly in the works of Mazzini, Bluntschli, and Spencer before embarking on his fashioning of Hindutva identity, and that Ambedkar had drawn inspiration from both …

[PDF] Indian Feminist Jurisprudence; Gender Equality and Secularist Challenges

NR Nithya - Journal of Polity and Society, 2023
… Hindutva forces. So, the central question that this paper tries to explore is how the evolving contradictions and conflicts in the legal discourse of secularism became political propaganda tools for Hindutva … the idea of secularism in Indian society …

India's Daughter: It Is Time to Retire the Realist Rape Documentary

N Sikand - Camera Obscura, 2023
This essay links the historical figure of Phoolan Devi, infamously known as the “Bandit Queen,” a vigilante and the subject of several articles, news stories, books, and a biopic, with the more recent figure of Jyoti Singh Pandey, the victim of a brutal gang …

Backwater Infinitude

R Rajan
… Furthermore, the ultimate source of this rupture was never a force that bore down on an integral “tradition" from without. Why? Because … : a rupture from the very notion that there was an originally integral pre-colonial substance which only …

Also, what it means be a reader or a viewer. There’s a new sense that you mustn’t just lose yourself in a narrative but think about how that narrative is formed and shaped, and who is talking to you. In a way, modernism exposes some of the clockwork of the makings of art

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/modernism-alexandra-harris/

But the great high modernists were largely British or Irish. Eliot, WB Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, DH Lawrence and Joseph Conrad are the great pillars of literary reform in the early 20th century... Any of the great modernists texts – such as James Joyce’s Ulysses, TS Eliot’s The WastelandVirginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse – were built out of fragments of past styles, past literature, past traditions. So there is a link to the past with modernism, but there’s a new sense of how we view that past... this drive towards change – the urgency with which people were calling for a new world, a kind of utopian vision... high modernism was very much internationalist. 


ଖରାଦିନେ, ଦିନେ ଭୁବନେଶ୍ବରରୁ ଟ୍ୟାକ୍ସିରେ ଏକୁଟିଆ କଟକ ଫେରୁଥାଏଁ । ପଶ୍ଚିମ ମେଘ କାନ୍ଛି ତଳେ ସୂର୍ଯ୍ୟ ବୁଡ଼ି ଯାଉଥାଏ, ଏଣେ ପୂର୍ବମେଘ କୋଣରେ ଜହ୍ନ ଉଇଁ ଆସୁଥାଏ । ସେଦିନ ପୁନେଇଁ । ବାଟରେ ବିଭୂତିବାବୁ ଓ ତାଙ୍କ ଗାଇବା ଗୀତ ହଠାଡ଼ ମନେ ପଡ଼ିଗଲା । ଫୁଲନଖରା ଛକ ପାଖ । ସେଠି ଗୋଟିଏ ପାଣିଡୋଭା ଅଛି । ତା'ରି କୂଳରେ କେତୋଟି ଆମ୍ବଗଛ - ମନେହୁଏ ଯେମିତି ଭାଇବନ୍ଧୁ ସାଥୁରେ ନେଇ ରହିଛନ୍ତି । ଅଳ୍ପ ଦୂରରେ ଗୋଟିଏ ଏକୁଟିଆ ତାଳଗଛ ଛିଡ଼ା ହୋଇଛି । ପାଖରେ ସତେ ଯେମିତି କେହି ବନ୍ଧୁ -କୁଟୁମ୍ବ ନାହାନ୍ତି ତା'ର | ଭାବିଲି, ମୁଁ ତ ଏଇମିତି ଏକୁଟିଆ । ଏଇ ଜହ୍‌ ଆଲୁଅରେ, ଏଇ ଏକୁଟିଆ ତାଳଗଛ ମୂଳେ ନିଛାଟିଆରେ ଗେରୁଆ ପିନ୍ଧି ବସି ଏକତାରାଟିଏ ଧରି ଗୀତ ଗାଇ କୁମ୍ଭାରକୁ ମନକଥା ଶୁଣାଇଲେ ଭାରି ଭଲ ହୁଅନ୍ତା; କିନ୍ତୁ କ'ଣ ଗାଇବି ?
Sri AUROBINDO'SThe Life Divine.Discussion by:-Bira BhaiChapter:-9.Para:- 14 & 15. 1 view · 6 minutes ago ...more. Miraville Yoga. 4.42K. Subscribe

[PDF] Sri Aurobindo Ghosh: A Visionary Philosopher and Spiritual Luminary

AS Malik, UH Mir, R Altaf
… Sri Aurobindo's life resonates as a testament to the transformative power of a life committed … In crafting his teachings and immortal writings, Sri Aurobindo embarked on a mission to mend the … Sri Aurobindo's early days were marked by a …

Academic Framework for 21st-Century Schooling: Promoting Global Peace and Harmony: Promoting Global Peace and Harmony

M Mukhopadhyay, A Kundu - 2023
… According to Spiritualist Professor Sri Aurobindo, the purpose of education is to unveil and nurture the latent potentialities and harmonious living with the self, society, country, and humanity to make oneself an integral human being. The Nobel laureate …

Issues and Challenges in Integrating Modern Psychology with Indian Thought

S Varma - Psychological Studies, 2023
The views expressed by Sinha (J Humanistic Psychol 5(1):17, 1965) were radical and ahead of time. He had emphasized the immense value of Indian knowledge systems and their potential to enrich academic psychology as a whole. The chief …

Othering the Same

NGE Advaita
Ethical and political adaptations of Advaita Vedānta in the twentieth century frequently face the criticism that it follows an assimilative and difference-blind logic of self-love. Contemporary philosophy of difference and alterity, enunciated by …

[PDF] Local Knowledge and Culturally Contextual Approaches to Peacebuilding: Experiences from India

AS Upadhyaya, AK Yadav, P Upadhyaya - Journal of Polity and Society, 2023
… Public intellectuals like Lokmanya Tilak, Lajpat Rai and Sri Aurobindo interpreted Gita to endorse violence as acceptable. On the other side, Gandhi’s commitment to nonviolence made him reject the invocation of the Gita to justify the use of violence …

6 Could Kali Be Bharat Mata?

N Mukherjee - Making the'Woman': Discourses of Gender in 18th-19th …, 2023
… Sri Aurobindo's original composition of Bhavani Bharati can be accessed here: https://… Bhavani Bharati, Mother of India'(1904-1908) is Sri Aurobindo's only poem written in Sanskrit and was … Sri Aurobindo Translations from Sanskrit and Other …

[PDF] Nation and Civilisation in Modern Indian Social and Political Thought

SK Das - Journal of Polity and Society, 2023
Instead of viewing Western Political Theory and Modern Indian Social and Political Thought as complete binaries, the paper views them as complementary to each other. It (i) argues that the dominant post-Cold War Western theories of nation and …

[PDF] Understanding Sri Aurobindo's Integral Education: Nationalism and Sustainable Harmony

R Tiwari - NEW RACE, 2023
… Sri Aurobindo believes in the existence of a ‘nation-soul’along with other external manifestations that help in building the concept of … (Bande Mataram: 360) The philosophy of nationalism given by Sri Aurobindo aims to reinforce the ideal of …

[PDF] Learning from Auroville's seed; in quest for the (unrecognizable) eternal space-time

J Ribeiro - Time and Space
… In 1968, in South India, the foundation of Auroville, a city that was born of the unusual aspiration to be a place for human elevation, was taking place. In this paper, we will be looking at Auroville’s conception from a “space-time” window and relating …

[PDF] The “New Nationalism” and India's Renaissance

MR Paranjape - NEW RACE, 2023
… This was the message of Sri Aurobindo, whose 150th anniversary we have just finished … Sri Aurobindo starts with a startling assertion,‘We in India fail in all things for want of Shakti’ (… Sri Aurobindo says that our knowledge is inadequate and …

LITERARY ECHOES: NOTABLE QUOTES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

MRM Mujawar - 2023
The voice of poetry comes from a region above us,a plane of our being above and beyond our personal intelligence- Sri Aurobindo Shakespeare is an upstart crow- Robert Greene Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they?Ode to Autumn …

12 The Emerging 'Woman'

N Hazarika - Making the'Woman': Discourses of Gender in 18th-19th …, 2023
Throughout history,‘woman’as a distinct category has been invisible in the mainstream discourses. History as well as literary history holds a mirror to this reality of life. The Eurocentric assumptions as well as diverse Indian cultural suppositions …

Vidura's Ethical Paradoxes: Unravelling Moral Complexity in the Mahabharata

R Srinivasan, PS Aithal - RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of …, 2023
Vidura, a major character of the Mahabharat offers profound ethical and philosophical contributions that remain meaningful till now. Vidura’s teachings, in contrast, pivot around the steadfast adherence to dharma (righteousness) and moral …

Tatsṛṣṭvā Tadevānuprāviśat: Toward an Advaita Vedantic Approach to Cosmopsychism

V Hejjaji, A Sadasivan, PR Padmakumar - Philosophy East and West, 2023
Abstract: This essay draws attention to some of the ideas and discussions in the classical Advaita Vedantic literature that have a direct bearing on contemporary debates concerning the existence of consciousness in the empirical world. Section 1 …

[PDF] Can Consciousness cease?: A perspective from Hindu contemplative traditions

AV Iyer, A Venkatraman, SA Pandit… - 2023
The notion of “cessation of consciousness” based on Theravāda Buddhist accounts of nirodha samāpatti (NS) in Laukkonen et al (2023) is critiqued from the perspective of Hindu contemplative traditions such as Yoga and Vedānta, wherein …

Bound by the Commons of Death: Plague, Pandemic, and the Indian University

D Bhattacharya - History of the Present, 2023
This article springs from a larger project attempting to rethink the university conceptually. It proceeds by resignifying the cardinal registers through which the public university may realize the meanings of its publicness—that is, in its …

[PDF] Sangīta Yoga

A Bhaduri
… The dance reflects not only the Bhakti Marga as proposed in Vishishtaadvaita system of Indian philosophy but also follows the principles of Integral Yoga wherein the knowledge (of the form), works or action indicating continuous practice of the …

[PDF] THE SCENT OF MEDICINAL HERBS: UNRAVELING NATURE'S AROMATIC PHARMACY

MD Mamatkulovna - International Journal of Advance Scientific Research, 2023
… These include meditation, yoga, and mindfulness techniques that utilize scents to enhance the overall healing experience. The applications of medicinal herb scents in traditional and modern medicine demonstrate the versatility and enduring …

Trade Routes, Traders and the Making of the Sacred Landscapes

A Kumar - Beyond Borders: Indo-Sasanian Trade and Its Central …, 2023
… , and on trade routes, which are argued to have made these an integral part of the intra-, inter- and trans-regional exchange networks. … In this way, the visit to the temple of goddess Sikotar is considered an integral part of the beliefs of the …

The politician Savarkar often overshadows the scholar and thinker Savarkar! Ambedkar is recognized as a big thinker by many Hindu Nationalists today, but not Savarkar. Savarkar the writer was Sitaram Goel, Ram Swarup of his time.Very informed, intelligent and perceptive! https://twitter.com/Mahasamudra27m/status/1720121296363954216?t=fq_YERBhifH3-1YdPwON-g&s=19

Yes, very surprising! SRG actually even recycled MANY of Savarkar's arguments in some of his books (possibly without even knowing)! Maybe because SRG had more of a Bengali cultural background and wasn't too aware of the breadth of Savarkar's works? In any case, it's strange. 1. I strongly disagree that with VS, "it was opposite", but yes, he did not get enough time to write much on spirituality, unlike Aurobindo. That might be 1 big reason why he was loved by SRG. 2. VS fulfilled the needs of his own times, as SRG did for his own. Even then, VS has criticized Islm and Xianity in his books and for Islm, even criticized with proper Kuran references. He did not write a book specifically dedicated to Islm criticism, yes. But that was because Swami Dayananda had already done so. VS strongly promoted Satyarth Prakash. But do you disagree? I think these reasons are enough - that Aurobindo, Vivekananda wrote a lot on philosophy/spirituality while VS didn't.  SRG loved the formers more coz of this. As for understanding Abrahamic relgns is concerned, VS understood both Islm, Xnity well.

... 

SRG surprisingly barely talked about Savarkar in his books. Vivekananda and Aurobindo always feature in his books, Savarkar, almost never.

https://twitter.com/Redpilldbrahmin/status/1720338403529793886?t=ji1EwQfVs2nbbGNwukXoYQ&s=19

Reasons: 1. SRG was a very spiritual Hindu, very well read on Vedanta and even Buddhism. He got into spirituality first and then only got into politics. With Savarkar, it was opposite. 2. SRG actually analyzed the primary sources of islam to find the root cause of M behavior whereas Savarkar mostly focused on historical enmity between the two Qaums. Savarkar could've never written books like Calcutta Quran petition or H temples what happened to them?

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Motivational interviewing and integrative wellness

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

[PDF] Man of His Times

N Nagaraju - The undying legacy of Madhusudan Das
A cursory glance at Madhusudan Das’s life and the cultural climate of nineteenth century colonial Bengal and eastern India, is enough to tell how aptly the honorific ‘babu’fits to his name. The aim here is not to produce another panegyric on him, but to trace …

Hindutva and violence: VD Savarkar and the politics of history

C Fair - 2023
Hindutva and violence charts the intellectual arc of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the founder of Hindu nationalism from which India’s contemporary Hindu chauvinists draw their mission to transform the nation into an authoritarian Hindu state …

Of muscles and men: The making of a 'fit'India

S Haq - Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 2023
… He is regarded as a principal architect of Hindutva (Hindu ideology), which is based on qualities of masculinity and virility. However, the two nationalist leaders differed in their conception of Hindu nation state, with Vivekananda addressing a …

The Book of Desire: The Book of Desire Tiruvalluvar. Translated by Meena Kandasamy Galley Beggar Press, London 2023, hb, 207pp,£ 14.99 ISBN 9781913111366 …

S Trevett - 2023
… Meena Kandasamy’s translation of the third section of Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural (the Inpattuppāl) is a much-needed corrective in today’s India, worryingly immersed in Hindutva rhetoric and Brahminical hegemony. From the outset, Kandasamy is clear …

Patchy Ethnographies of Neocolonial and Neoliberal Landscapes in Amitav Ghosh and Frank Westerman

L De Capitani - Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature: Uneven …, 2023
This chapter establishes a comparison between the Indian anthropologist-turned-writer Amitav Ghosh and the Dutch engineer-turned-journalist Frank Westerman, both known for connecting various locales and different historical periods in their texts …

Militant Ethnography and Internal Colonialism in Carlo Levi and Mahasweta Devi

L De Capitani - Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature: Uneven …, 2023
In Chap. 3 , I explore how both Carlo Levi’s and Mahasweta Devi’s writing emerges from a militant fieldwork among exploited, marginalised groups—South Italian peasants in the fascist era and indigenous communities in (post)colonial India—and …

[PDF] Generic Hybridity, Narrative Polyphony and Uncanny Slums in Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

A Monaco - Critical South Asian Studies, 2023
Deepa Anappara’s Djinn Patrol on the Purple (2020) centres on the mysterious disappearance of children from the basti of an Indian shantytown, thus immersing the reader into the climate of injustice, grievability and vulnerability of contemporary …

Class-Caste Politics, Hierarchy, and Hindutva in Indian Cinema and Protest Theatre

T Biswas, A Banerjee - Wasafiri, 2023
Caste-based atrocities and discrimination have been an unfortunate reality in India for centuries. Although the administrative and structural implementation of an affirmative action system in the mid and later part of the twentieth century helped in …

[PDF] GLOBALISATION OF HATE AND INTERNATIONALISATION OF HATE CRIMES: INDIA-A CASE IN POINT

JM Razu - ETHICS AND OVERCOMING ODIOUS PASSIONS
Over the past thirty years we have been witnessing what is commonly referred to as ‘hate crime’94. Scholars and political analysts have added abundant knowledge to the phenomenon of hate crimes by ways of theorization and conceptualization. Over …

Transgressing Race

J Havea - Transgressing Race: Readings, Theologies …, 2023
… If the scenery was from the context of India’s Hindutva, i expect the ropes to have been dark yellow or orange—colors that represent purity in Hinduism. Whether white, yellow, or orange, the point is clear: some religious understanding of purity has …

17 Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity

M Nita - Grounding Religion: A Field Guide to the Study of …, 2023
This chapter examines the intersection between politics and discourses about religions and ecology. I ask, in what ways are religions and ecology discourses, which have emerged alongside the birth of modern environmental movements …

[PDF] Modalities of Conjunctural Analysis:“Seeing the Present Differently” through Global Lenses

G Hart - Antipode, 2023
The sub‐title of this essay refers to Antonio Gramsci's concept of “prevision”—understood as neither foresight nor prediction, but a method of political work that enables intervention in the present in order to change it. Prevision forms part of conjunctural …

[PDF] Of Women, Gay Men, and Dead Cats: The Precarity of Neoliberal Aspirations

M Anwer, A Arora - Critical South Asian Studies, 2023
… the final episodes of season one of MIH, which perfectly demonstrate the intertwining of neoliberal precarity and Hindutva as they bear … leads a public campaign to rescue Indian culture from its self-appointed Hindutva protectors. In …

Introduction: Entanglements of Indian Modernities: Poetics, Praxis, Possibilities in Literary Cultures of India from the 18th to the 20th Century

N Zaidi - Indian Modernities, 2023
… Simultaneously hailed for his iconoclastic stance in Gujarat and as a precursor of Hindutva among some outside Gujarat, Munshi also negotiated with modernity. In engaging with his negotiations with modernity, the chapter probes the milieu and the …

[PDF] Trust in Polarised Plural Societies: Intersections Across the Ideological Divides of Women's Groups in Malaysia

SB Saleem - 2023
From Europe to North America to Asia, social groups align with political parties along polarising stances to battle over a range of hot-button culture war issues related to gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, national identity, and religion in …

When does history begin? Religion, narrative, and identity in the Sikh tradition

CS VanderBeek - 2023
Harjot Oberoi’s When Does History Begin? is a collection of essays that explores what lies just beyond canonical Sikh historical narratives. Since the Singh Sabha religious reformist movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sikh history …

Tagore and Androgyny: The Politics of an Accommodative India

C Choudhury, AK Rath - South Asian Review, 2023
… Hindutva in contemporary India draws on substance from Tagore’s perception of India as more tolerant and accommodative. Interestingly, Hinduism is the link to Tagore’s spiritual humanism and Hindutva. … India also gives insights into …

[PDF] Bharat's unseen patriots: Igniting flame of nationalism and brave tales of sacrifice to secure India's Independence

Z Zoariah - Firstpost, 2023
… Leftleaning historians, driven by their own narratives, strive to obscure the contributions of Hindutva ideologues to the freedom struggle. The truth remains unshaken, witnessed by the names etched in history’s annals – Vasudev Balwant …

Enabling connections: Relational comparison in a global conjunctural frame

G Hart - The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global …, 2023
… To engage these challenges, I turned to the work of scholars concerned with analyzing the escalation of right-wing Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) alongside the Indian National Congress’s ushering in neoliberal capitalism in the early 1990s. In …

Invitation and Belonging in a Christian Ashram: Building Interreligious Community in Northern India by Nadya Pohran

PM Beldio - Nova Religio, 2023
Nadya Pohran offers an example of rigorous and compelling scholarship across the theological and anthropological divide, using historical evidence, ethnographic data, social scientific methodologies, and theological resources. With this research, she …

[PDF] Does Today's India Need'Decolonisation'Speak?

S Choudhuri, M Tundawala - 2023
… What makes decolonisation so attractive to Hindutva is its negative and reactionary side, which enables enjoyment simply from demolition and destruction of all kinds – from architecture to law codes. This is a complete repudiation of the …

Transgressing Race: Readings, Theologies, Belongings

J Havea, YT Vinayaraj - 2023
… If the scenery was from the context of India's Hindutva, i expect the ropes to have been dark yellow or orange-colors that represent purity in Hinduism. Whether white, yellow, or orange, the point is clear: some religious understanding of purity has …

[HTML] Tableeghi Jammat| Part 5| Last Episode| Ameer Saab Ki Wasooli| Season

T Jamaat, T Akbar, T Gill
… People associated with the ruling Hindutva-aligned Bharatiya Janata Party called out Indian Hindus to socially boycott Indian Muslims. This drew criticism from Arab leaders and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation; the Prime Minister Narendra …

[HTML] las mejores canciones hindu Adhoc apply for MO/WMO, Nurse Registrar Professors| HISDU| Punjab Health department| ilmijazeera

H Dubs-Frozen
… India’s populist Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, advocates a hardline form of Hindu nationalism, known as Hindutva – which has been accused of inciting deadly violence in India, as well as inflaming the tensions in the US and UK. And this …

[PDF] POL 492/2392 Topics in Comparative Politics IV

J Teichman - 2023
The course seeks to introduce students to the scholarly debates on the origins and nature of populism with a focus on the Global South, and with a particular emphasis on Latin America. It also seeks to build critical analytical and writing skills. Students …

Integration of Motivational Interviewing with Mindfulness and Other Integrative Health Modalities

JJ Stephens, MA Gold
In this chapter, we will explore how Motivational Interviewing (MI) can enrich the care we provide to our patients through exploration of some less conventional approaches to treatment. We will focus on mindfulness and other integrative health …

[HTML] ASSESSING THE ROLE OF SOFT POWER IN INDIA-RUSSIA RELATIONS

D Rashmi - Вестник МГИМО Университета, 2023
… Indian merchants also settled in Astrakhan in the 17th century and became integral to the trade in the region. … The Embassy of India's Jawaharlal Nehru Centre in Moscow hosts regular cultural events and offers courses in Hindi, yoga …

[HTML] Integrative Approach to Wellness: Holistic Wellness Solutions

B DHEA
… Techniques such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, chiropractic care, and mind-body practices like meditation and yoga are often … In addition to physical approaches, integrative wellness places great emphasis on psychotherapy as an integral part of …

[PDF] How Donald Trump Made the Extreme Mainstream

I was typical Trump
… There was not a figure more integral in Donald Trump’s utilisation of the Alt-Right during his successful presidential campaign than Steve … murdered, a street around the corner from an Urban Outfitters and a block away from the Let it Be yoga …

[PDF] Agni: The Eternal Flame Guiding Indian Life and Spirituality

V Vijay - Interdisciplinary Journal of Yagya Research, 2023
… is not a mere concept, but an integral thread woven into the tapestry of Indian life, … yoga) can illuminate the profound spiritual essence of Agni in the context of Indian spirituality. Literature indicates that Yogagni represents a heightened energy accessible …

[HTML] The digital transformation in the psychology of workplace spirituality

Y Walter - Digital Transformation and Society, 2023
Purpose There is evidence that spirituality at the workplace has positive effects on work outcomes, and there are different models conceptualizing the construct. To date, there is no discussion highlighting how digitalization is affecting workplace …

[PDF] EFFECTS OF FLOW STATES ON ELITE ATHLETES IN TEAM SPORTS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

LE Martiny, LZ Theil, EM Neto, G Dias, JP Ferreira… - REVISTA FOCO, 2023
The flow state has materialized as a condition of possibility for the search for the best performance in sports, both individual and collective. The objective of this systematic review of studies was to identify which form the “state of flow” influenced the sports …

Serving Life: A Qualitative Study of the Perceived Effects of Yoga on Incarcerated Men

CL Williams - 2023
… considered an integral part of … yoga in the United States, particularly emphasizing the liberatory aspects of yoga for marginalized groups and sought to investigate the long-term benefits of participation in Prison Yoga Project by offering …

An account of medical treatment, with a preliminary account of medical conditions

S Tresker - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2023
In this article, I present a philosophical account of medical treatment. In support of this account, I offer a suggestive account of medical conditions. The account of medical treatment uses three desiderata to demarcate treatment from non-treatment …

[PDF] Practice of silence to promote coping, emotion regulation, and future planning of imprisoned individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study

P Paoletti, G Perasso, C Lillo, G Serantoni, A Maculan… - Journal of Offender …, 2023
Recent studies have emphasized that silence is a fundamental element in meditative practices for stress relief, well-being, and stimulating faith in the future. This study describes the educational experience of implementing the Practice of …

Transformational Liberation in the Age of COVID-19

TS Tiemeier - The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Comparative …, 2023
… Indeed, their marginalization is necessary to protect and maintain the boundaries around the ideal Hindutva woman. Their ongoing subjugation is a necropower that fuels the Hindutva state. Chakraborty notes that COVID-19 biopolitics shifted this …

[PDF] Outlook for India-Middle East Relations: National Aspirations and Interests Will Crash Against Hindutva Ideology

T Ahmad
India’s image at home and abroad is being shaped by two factors that are deeply intertwined: the personality of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ideology of Hindutva—Hindu nationalism—that he robustly advocates These elements taken …

[HTML] Between the Boundaries of Asceticism and Activism: Understanding the Authority of the Sadhvis within the Hindu Right in India

K Dasgupta - Religions, 2023
… In reality, the sadhvis were reorganising the feminine space within a predominately masculine Hindutva movement by recommending a … and authority that these sadhvis achieved while actively participating in the Hindutva movement …

This World and the “Other”: Muslim Identity and Politics on the Indo-Bangladesh Border

Å Kolås - Alternatives, 2023
… This illustrates that anti-lynching activists have constructed a narrative of Hindutva violence, in which … a “Hindutva mob.” Here, we can see a narrative of Muslim victimhood that counters Muslim “othering” with Hindutva “othering,” emphasizing …

12 Bharatiya Janata Party Electoral Dominance or Ideological Hegemony?

MK Jha - Indian Politics and Political Processes: Ideas …, 2023
… Savarkar provided a more systematic and philosophical basis to Hindu nationalism on the basis of Hindutva. ³ It required other religious … on the basis of Hindutva which is based on blood ties and territory. However, for all practical …

4 Forms of Contemporary Religious Movements

MN Thakur - Indian Politics and Political Processes: Ideas …, 2023
… One of the important variables in Indian politics is linked with this game of transforming Hinduism into Hindutva, in which religion becomes an identity and constitutes a political community. Coming to the strategy these movements adopt to …

Dalit Activism, Social Media, and Transnational Advocacy

M Madhu - Voiced and Voiceless in Asia
… 2 Hindutva is the name by which the ideology of the Hindu right, represented by the political party, the Bhartiya Janata Party is known. the Hindutva movement has been described as a variant of “right-wing extremism,” and as “almost fascist in the …

[PDF] A study of Electronic Media on the Voting Behaviour of Indian Voters

S Mishra, U Yadav
… There was a consensus that the commodification of Hindutva, the prevailing religious ideology, commenced in the late 1980s, … collective Hindu identity can be attributed to their explicit endorsement of Hindutva, representing the movement for …

[PDF] Democratic Backsliding in India: Why India's Elites Are to Blame Forthcoming, Journal of Democracy

V Yadav
Is India experiencing democratic backsliding? Given India’s prior history as a flawed democracy, the answer to this question requires that we discriminate carefully between two possibilities. First, that the current state of Indian democracy is just the …

The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India

P Hota - 2023
… Hota documents how Hindutva mobilization led to large-scale violence, culminating in attacks against many thousands of Pana Dalits in the district of Kandhamal in 2008. Bringing indigenous studies as well as race and ethnic studies …

Confronting Poverty, Prejudice and Religious Inequality: Ensuring No One Is Left Behind

M Tadros, P Mader, K Cheeseman - Poverty and Prejudice: Religious Inequality and …, 2023
This book documents how poverty and uneven development often reflect religious prejudice and inequality, which is often overlooked in development practice and scholarship. Religious inequalities refer to the differences created between …

Climate Justice for the Religiously Marginalized

L Mehta - Poverty and Prejudice: Religious Inequality and the …, 2023
… But the spread of Hindutva in India and more rigid forms of Islam in Bangladesh are undermining these syncretic beliefs and indigenous … Under the current Hindutva regime, the distinct identities and socio-cultural practices of religious …

Religious Inequality and Environmental Change

S Srivastava, V Bachina - Poverty and Prejudice: Religious Inequality and the …, 2023
The rapid pace of environmental change in the form of biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, pollution and climate change is threatening the wellbeing of human and non-human systems across the globe. Unfortunately, the …

Renaming Places in India: Conjuring the Present by Exorcising a Past

R Mehra - Poverty and Prejudice: Religious Inequality and the …, 2023
… From 2014 onwards, there has been a ‘resurgence of cultural nationalism and populism–a manifestation of the Hindutva ideology’espoused by the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) after it defeated the Congress party, which had ruled India for over …

[PDF] Review of Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy

D Savariyar - The Journal of Social Encounters, 2023
Christophe Jaffrelot’s Modi’s India offers a brilliant map of the democracy’s changing face under Modi’s regime. The eleven chapters divided into three unequal parts investigate the country’s political trajectory, as it has been seen to slide from national …

[HTML] Feast, Famine, and Hegemony: On Neoliberalisation and Hindu Nationalism in India–Alf Gunvald Nilsen

SSA BLOG
Last year, in September 2022, Fortune Magazine reported that India was home to the second richest person in the world. The person in question was Gautam Adani, a business tycoon from the Western Indian state of Gujarat, who at that point in time …

Book review: Sujata Patel, D. Parthasarathy and George Jose, Mumbai/Bombay: Majoritarian Neoliberalism, Informality, Resistance, and Wellbeing

K Medappa - Journal of South Asian Development, 2023
… Majoritarian politics in the country is traced from being mobilized by subaltern populations around language, cultural assertion, as well as to contest elite power, to the more recent rise of hindutva politics built on demonizing and othering …