Jana Sangh and the BJP between Hindu NaƟonalism and CoaliƟon PoliƟcs in India Christophe Jaffrelot Centre d’études et de recherches internaƟonales Sciences Po QuesƟons de recherche / Research in quesƟon – n° 34 – Décembre 2010 hƩp://www.ceri-sciences-po.org/publica/qdr.htm 1 Refining the “ModeraƟon Thesis” Regarding “Radical ParƟes” The Jana Sangh and the BJP between Hindu NaƟonalism and CoaliƟon PoliƟcs in India1 Summary The inclusion of Hindu naƟonalist parƟes in India’s democraƟc
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1. From the book of Amos‚ state how the poor and needy were afflicted. (4) In the book of Amos‚ the poor were treated as outcast and were discriminated against. The government collected taxes from the poor such as rent thus fine buildings were built and pleasant vine yards were established. Selling the righteous for money and the needy for a pair of sandals tells us a lot about the social conditions of that time when the poor had to fight for their just rights‚ which were all too frequently ignored
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Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh is on the path to achieve new heights‚ higher than when it was united. The first step towards this direction seems to be taken as the state gears up to celebrate Ganesh Chaturti‚ a festival celebrating birth of the Hindu lord‚ who is worshipped before any venture is undertaken. Andhra Pradesh’s largest city‚ Vizag‚ will be having at least five Ganesh idols taller than the much celebrated Khairatabad Ganesh idol of Telangana’s largest city‚ Hyderabad. While the
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national integration and unity in diversity. * The concept for Mile Sur was developed in 1988 by Lok Seva Sanchar Parishad and promoted by Doordarshan (then India’s sole TV broadcaster) and India’s Ministry of Information. 6th Slide: Religions of India HINDUISM * 82% of population in India are Hindus. * In Hinduism‚ Whole life is sacred-Concerned with religion * Hindu people
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longest-serving Chief Minister in Gujarat’s history when he had been in power for 2‚063 days continuously. He is currently into his fourth consecutive term as Chief Minister. Modi is a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and is described as a Hindu nationalist by media‚ scholars and himself.[2][3][4][5] He is a controversial figure both within India and internationally.[6][7][8][9] His administration has been severely criticised for the incidents surrounding the 2002 Gujarat violence.[9][10] He
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burning and Naroda Patiya massacre and the subsequent communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in the Indian state of Gujarat. On 27 February 2002‚ the Sabarmati Express train was attacked at Godhra by a Muslim mob as per a preplanned conspiracy. 58 Hindu pilgrims‚ including 25 women and 15 children‚ returning from Ayodhya‚ were killed in the attack. This in turn prompted retaliatory attacks against Muslims and general communal riots on a large scale across the state‚ in which 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus
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Vadnagar railway station‚ and later ran a tea stall with his brother near a bus terminus. He completed his higher secondary education in Vadnagar in 1967. He joined the pro-Hindu Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) organization in the early 1970s and set up a unit of the RSS’s students’ wing‚ the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad‚ in his area. Modi rose steadily in the RSS hierarchy‚ and his association with the organization significantly benefited his subsequent political career. He became cm of Gujarat
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Shantiparva and Saptanga theory of State by Kautilya Objectives of the Present Topic are as under: * To aware students about ancient Hindu political thought. * To make pupil understand how ancient thinkers looked at different ideas of society. * To evaluate how Kautilya Arthashastra provides for welfare state in ancient India. * To know about the elements of state and foreign policy in ancient India as devised by Kautilya in his masterpiece Arthashastra Brief Summary Kautaliya ’s
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We The Muslims BY [pic] Synopsis “Status of the Muslim community today‚ i.e in the post Independent India” is the main concern of this book. For the last many decades‚ it has been the burning issue in India as to whether the Muslim Community has gone down much below the poverty line ? and whether on Social‚ political‚ educational and economic fronts‚ they are lagging behind form the rest of the communities living in India. The Govt. of India too‚ being concerned
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Language has been known as a symbol of identity since a long time. It is considered as a gelling force to keep the communities united. Urdu was the official language of the sub-continent and was spoken and used by both‚ Hindus and Muslims. All groups had contributed towards the development of the language. The Urdu-Hindi controversy started with the fall of the Mughal Empire. This is because the Hindus felt that Urdu was a language of the invaders as many Turkish‚ Arabic and Persian words had been
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