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Hindu nationalism has been collectively referred to as the expression of social and political thought, based on the native spiritual and cultural traditions of the Indian subcontinent. "Hindu nationalism" is a simplistic translation of हिन्दू राष्ट्रवाद ( Hindū Rāṣṭravād ). It is better described as "Hindu ...
Indian nationalism. The flag of India, which is often used as a symbol of Indian nationalism. Indian nationalism is an instance of territorial nationalism, which is inclusive of all of the people of India, despite their diverse ethnic, linguistic and religious backgrounds. Indian nationalism can trace roots to pre-colonial India, but was fully ...
Akhand Bharat. A map of the concept of Akhand Bharat, depicting Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tibet. [1] Akhand Bharat ( transl. Undivided India ), also known as Akhand Hindustan, is a term for the concept of a unified Greater India. [2] [3] [4] It asserts that modern-day Afghanistan ...
1721–1949. Partition of India. 1947. v. t. e. The Indian Independence Movement, was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British rule in India. It lasted until 1947, when the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed. The first nationalistic movement for Indian independence emerged in the Province of Bengal.
The anti-Hindi imposition agitation of 1937–1940 refers to a series of protests that happened in Madras Province of British India during 1937–1940. It was launched in 1937 in opposition to the introduction of compulsory teaching of Hindi in the schools of the province by the Indian National Congress government led by C. Rajagopalachari ...
Dravida Nadu is the name of a proposed sovereign state demanded by the Justice Party led by the founder of the self-respect movement, E.V. Ramasamy Periyar, and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) led by C. N. Annadurai for the speakers of the Dravidian languages in South India . Initially, the demand of Dravida Nadu proponents was limited to ...
Vasudha Dalmia is an Indian professor emerita of Hindi and Modern South Asian Studies in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. [1] Her authored works include The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bhāratendu Hariśchandra and Nineteenth Century Banaras (1997), the essay collection ...
These differences have led a number of scholars to declare that India is not a secular state, as the word secularism is widely understood in the West and elsewhere; rather it is a strategy for political goals in a nation with a complex history, and one that achieves the opposite of its stated intentions. The attempt to have a Uniform Civil Code ...