Lessons From the Past for the Future: The Definition and Mobilisation of Hindu Nationhood by the Hindu Nationalist Movement of India

Lessons From the Past for the Future: The Definition and Mobilisation of Hindu Nationhood by the Hindu Nationalist Movement of India

Guided by a self-categorisation and social-identity framework of identity entrepreneurship (Reicher & Hopkins, 2001), and social representations theory of history (Liu & Hilton, 2005), this paper examines how the Hindu nationalist movement of India defines Hindu nationhood by embedding it in...

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Main Authors: Sammyh S. Khan, Ted Svensson, Yashpal A. Jogdand, James H. Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2017-11-01
Series:Journal of Social and Political Psychology
Subjects:
India
Hindu nationalism
Indian independence
Hindu-Muslim relations
entrepreneurs of identity
social identity theory
self-categorisation theory
social representations theory
Online Access:http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/736

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