 | Deepika Bahri, Mary Vasudeva - 2009 - 392 pages
...conception. It is an entirely modern, rationalist, historicist idea. Like other modern ideologies, it allows for a central role of the state in the modernization...society and strongly defends the state's unity and sovereignty. Its appeal is not religious but political."21 In fact, one primary agenda of the BJP,... | |
 | Richard King - 1999 - 300 pages
...conception. It is an entirely modern. rationalist. and historicist idea. Like other modern ideologies. it allows for a central role of the state in the modernization...society and strongly defends the state's unity and sovereignty. Its appeal is not religious but politicaL In this sense the framework of its reasoning... | |
 | J. J. Roy Burman - 2002 - 424 pages
...conception. It is an entirely modern rationalist and historicist idea. Like other modern ideologies, it allows for a central role of the state in the modernization...society and strongly defends the state's unity and sovereignty. Its appeal is not religious but political. In this sense the framework of its reasoning... | |
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Indian nationalism" is synonymous with "Hindu nationalism" is not the vestige of some premodern religious conception. It is an entirely modern, rationalist, and historicist idea. Like other modern ideologies, it allows for a central role of the state... 