Diaspora nationalism can reinforce exclusive and essentialist communal ideologies

Evidence

Chetan Bhatt has pointed to the ways in which forms of diaspora nationalism reinforce and reinscribe essentialist and exclusive forms of communal ideology. These movements operate within translocal routeways while strengthening an exclusively Hindu claim to Indian soil. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a semimartial organization set up in the 1920s, aims to implant Hindu supremacist ideology and encourage physical training among Hindu young men. This project has a specific youth orientated form through the RSS branches or Shakhas that promote Hindu education through storytelling, games, physical activities, and quizzes. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3010

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the RSS Shakha model: a paramilitary youth-education network combining storytelling, games, and physical training.
• SEED: Essay angle: how supposedly benign youth clubs can be vehicles for supremacist ideology — the RSS shakha as childhood-softened indoctrination.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3010
• XREF: connects to: Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism rests on a foundational belief in Buddhist sufferance toward minorities; Illiberal democracy enables nationalist preferences that democracy’s own norms would reject — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 145; Radical movements get assimilated to bourgeois culture via nationalism, essentialism, and fragmentation — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 265 (+2 more)