The Hindutva concept of ‘nationalism’ is essentially non-accommodative
The corporate-Hindutva alliance, which underlies the BJP government, is centralizing
Anti-colonial nationalism had sought to be inclusive. This was necessary for uniting a diverse people to fight an imperial power whose relative strength derived precisely from this diversity. Uniting people of such diversity in turn required discussions and negotiations, between the proponents of the anti-colonial, pan-Indian nationalism, and others belonging to different social groups, and regional-linguistic communities, like the Bengalis, the Odias, the Tamils, and the Malayalis, whose formation dated back to a period even before the Bhakti movement.
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