Hindutva and Dalits by Anand Teltumbde

Author:Anand Teltumbde [Teltumbde, Anand]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789381345511
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2020-01-30T18:30:00+00:00

Notes

1 Many terms are used to refer to the right wing Hindu communalism. They are Hindutva forces, Hindu Fascism, majority communalism, and so on. The men who propagate the right wing Hindutva ideology operate under various forums and organisations like the RSS, VHP, Bajrang Dal, BJP, ABVP. These organizations are clubbed under the generic term ‘Sangh Parivar’. The term ‘Sangh’ refers to the RSS. Since the RSS gave rise to many of these frontal organizations and continues to operate as the central, coordinating agency these frontal organizations are placed within the Sangh Parivar.

2 Gail Omvedt, ‘Dalits and the Democratic Revolution’. In Dr Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India (Delhi: SAGE, 1994); and Lata Murugkar, Dalit Panther Movement in Maharashtra (Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991).

3 Ghanshyam Shah, ‘Caste, Hindutva and Hideousness.’ In Fascism in India: Faces, Fangs and Facts, edited by Krishna Chaitanya (Delhi: Manak Publications, 2003): 304–312.

4 Prakash Louis, ‘Dalit Utpeedan: Chakwara se Jhajjar tak’. Hindustan, 29 October 2002.

5 This alliance also was a short time honeymoon between diametrically opposed political parties, but now the alliance has been terminated. Whatever has been the consequence of this short-lived alliance only history will bear witness. But the way in which the Mayawati the leader of BSP in Uttar Pradesh has been subjected to witch hunting not only by the former alliance partner BJP and Samajwadi Party goes to bear testimony to the fact that the dominant castes ultimately take control over the situation. It appeared that Mayawati would wrest some benefits for the Dalits of Uttar Pradesh this time but the powerful dominant castes in alliance with the upper backward castes brought down the government even before any programmes could be undertaken.

6 Louis, ‘Dalit Utpeedan.’

7 Prakash Louis, and R. Vashum, eds., Extraordinary Laws in India: A Reader for Understanding Legislations Endangering Civil Liberties (Delhi: Indian Social Institute, 2002); Prakash Louis compiled Policy Documents of the Government of India: A Reader for Understanding Policies that Determine the Lives of Millions of Citizens (Delhi: Indian Social Institute, 2003). A careful reading of these policies unravels this fact that the well-being and rights of the citizens of this country are relegated to the background. In the name of growth, development, national unity draconian laws are being enacted at regular intervals.

8 T. B. Hansen, and C. Jaffrelot, The BJP and the Compulsions of Politics in India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998).

9 Interestingly, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi whenever she felt that her ‘authority’ was threatened engaged in this type of sloganeering. Whether it is to accuse her political opponents or to justify the imposition of emergency, she often took recourse to projecting an ‘external hand’ in disturbing the stability of the country. For more on this refer to Ram Avatar Sharma, Indira Gandhi’s Leadership (Delhi: Raja Prakashan, 1986).

10 Prakash Louis, The Emerging Hindutva Force: The Ascent of Hindu Nationalism (Delhi: Indian Social Institute, 2000).

11 ‘RSS: How It Functions?’ All India Sampradayikta Virodhi Committee, Delhi (nd): 8. While the political face of the Sangh Parivar came

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