Hinduism

A strain of Hindu nationalism, Hindutva, has grown in global prominence since 2014 under Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s BJP party. Now tensions are...

Hindu supremacists have made a concerted effort over several decades to equate their manufactured term “Hindutva” with Hinduism. From the early twentieth century onwards,...

By Neera Chandhoke The combative debate in political circles on the distinction between Hinduism and Hindutva gives us a reason to reflect. These are two...

By Preetha Nair Former Union minister and Congress leader Salman Khurshid is in the eye of a storm over his new book, ‘Sunrise Over Ayodhya:...

JOINING THE debate on Hindutva, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday drew a distinction between Hinduism and Hindutva. He argued that Hinduism is...

By Mohammed Hussain Ahmed Bijnor: After an uproar over the faith change of a scheduled caste man who was working in a Pune bakery in Maharashtra,...

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VARANASI, India—The seven pandits draped in cloth of gold are clearly competing against the five in saffron. In front of thousands of assembled pilgrims,...