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Anthony Parel, a historian and political scientist, V. D. Savarkar's ''Hindutva, Who is a Hindu?'' (1923) is a fundamental text of Hindutva ideology. It says the India of the past was "the creation of a racially superior people, the [[Aryans]]. They came to be known to the outside world as Hindus, the people beyond the [[Indus River]]... All Hindus claim to have in their veins the blood of the mighty race incorporated with and descended from the Vedic fathers. They created a culture — an ensemble of mythologies, legends, epic stories, philosophy, art and architecture, laws and rites, feasts and festivals..." Savarkar's text presents the "Hindu culture as a self-sufficient culture, not needing any input from other cultures", which is "an unhistorical, narcissistic and false account of India's past", states Parel.<ref name="Parel2006p42">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQhz0fW0HZUC|title=Gandhi's Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony|author=Anthony J. Parel|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2006|isbn=978-0-521-86715-3|pages=42–43}}</ref> |
Anthony Parel, a historian and political scientist, V. D. Savarkar's ''Hindutva, Who is a Hindu?'' (1923) is a fundamental text of Hindutva ideology. It says the India of the past was "the creation of a racially superior people, the [[Aryans]]. They came to be known to the outside world as Hindus, the people beyond the [[Indus River]]... All Hindus claim to have in their veins the blood of the mighty race incorporated with and descended from the Vedic fathers. They created a culture — an ensemble of mythologies, legends, epic stories, philosophy, art and architecture, laws and rites, feasts and festivals..." Savarkar's text presents the "Hindu culture as a self-sufficient culture, not needing any input from other cultures", which is "an unhistorical, narcissistic and false account of India's past", states Parel.<ref name="Parel2006p42">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQhz0fW0HZUC|title=Gandhi's Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony|author=Anthony J. Parel|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2006|isbn=978-0-521-86715-3|pages=42–43}}</ref> |
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Left leaning fascists have been targeting Hindutva ideology for decades and have frequently misquoted or misrepresented Veer Savarkar's philosophy. With the advent of online access to Veer Savarkar's original texts, these criticisms (such as the ones listed in this article) are slowly by surely being challenged. |
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Hindutva is a philosophical idea based on the following tenets:
- The ethnic population of the Indian subcontinent (which includes countries other than India) are Hindus.
- India is the motherland (matribhumi) and holy land (punyabhumi).
- A need to recover Indian cultural heritage that has been damaged by several invaders.
- Opposition of British colonialism and other foreign invasions, both direct and cultural.
- Opposition of communism and ultra left-wing appeasement politics that is done for weakening of Hindu heritage.
- Cow-killing in India should be banned as stated in the Directive Principles of State Policy in the Indian Constitution.
- All Indian students should learn Sanskrit in order to access the rich wealth of material available as well as connecting with their cultural roots.
- Development of ancient Vedic scientific knowledge (Engineering, Medicine etc).
Hindutva is the central idea of the organizations which advocate Hindu nationalism.
Comments by scholars
According to Christophe Jaffrelot, a political scientist specializing in South Asia, the Hindutva ideology has roots in an era where the fiction in ancient Indian mythology and the Vedics was thought to be valid. This fiction was used to "give sustenance to Hindu ethnic consciousness".[1] Its strategy emulated the Muslim identity politics of the Khilafat movement after World War I, and borrowed political concepts from the West – mainly Germany.[1]
Anthony Parel, a historian and political scientist, V. D. Savarkar's Hindutva, Who is a Hindu? (1923) is a fundamental text of Hindutva ideology. It says the India of the past was "the creation of a racially superior people, the Aryans. They came to be known to the outside world as Hindus, the people beyond the Indus River... All Hindus claim to have in their veins the blood of the mighty race incorporated with and descended from the Vedic fathers. They created a culture — an ensemble of mythologies, legends, epic stories, philosophy, art and architecture, laws and rites, feasts and festivals..." Savarkar's text presents the "Hindu culture as a self-sufficient culture, not needing any input from other cultures", which is "an unhistorical, narcissistic and false account of India's past", states Parel.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jaffrelot, Christophe 2009. Hindu Nationalism: a reader. Princeton University Press. pp. 14–15, 86–93. ISBN 1-4008-2803-1
- ↑ Anthony J. Parel (2006). Gandhi's Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony. Cambridge University Press. pp. 42–43. ISBN 978-0-521-86715-3.