Hindutva’s fascist ideological debt is the exception to its anti-Western stance

Evidence

The Sangh has very recently expunged this segment from a text that otherwise remains canonical. It is viscerally opposed to Western ideas, be they liberalism, socialism, feminism, or social justice. Fascism, however, is the only Western ideology to which it has acknowledged a lasting debt. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 1167

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Names Golwalkar’s 1939 Nazi-praise text (location 1166) — the excerpted prison talk can’t include that, so the definitional grounding is the surrounding text.
  • XREF: connects to: Hindu supremacists adopt the same ‘blood and soil’ doctrine as white supremacists; BJP ideology traces its roots to European white supremacism. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 443; Hindutva’s universal claim must annihilate whatever disrupts its completion — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1243

Broader Connections