Hindutva’s universal claim must annihilate whatever disrupts its completion
Evidence
From faith to community, from community to nation, from Indian nation to Hindu nation – in this transvaluation of Hindu faith, protagonists of Hindu Rashtra actually take on an impossibility: Hindutva has to appear as the general will of both faith and nation, of Hindus and India, since both, ultimately, are one in their vision. The universality of the claim must annihilate and disavow that which disrupts or questions its completion, its absolute fullness. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 1243
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: The structural claim that Hindutva’s wholeness-instinct inherently requires annihilating that which questions its fullness feels dense enough to warrant re-reading.
- XREF: connects to: Hindutva’s founding architect praised Nazi racial purity as a model for India — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1166; Hindutva’s apparent religious liberalism hides a weaponized pantheon — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1212; Hindutva reframed Hinduism as a political identity mandating Muslim exclusion from India (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Hindutva reframed Hinduism as a political identity mandating Muslim exclusion from India
#expands(0.82) - Hindutva’s apparent religious liberalism hides a weaponized pantheon
#expands(0.78) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 1212 - Political Hinduism expanded by assimilating its own fiercest critics posthumously.
#expands(0.75) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 428 - Hindutva’s fascist ideological debt is the exception to its anti-Western stance
#expands(0.72) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 1167