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> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Ulhas Joglekar
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:51 AM
> To: lbo-talk
> Subject: Re: steve P vs
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>
> Quenby Alclaire wrote:
> > and india is even worse than that because the radical
> > militants already have have hold of them.
>
> I am not sure what is meant by this. BJP doesn't even
> represent Hindus. BJP
> had only 23% of the total votes polled in the previous
> general elections.
>
> >and Israel
> > is even worse than that etc. etc. etc.
>
> Indian state is not founded on religion like states of Israel
> and Pakistan.
>
> Ulhas
>
Oh please. This is a really dubious assertion. The Hindu nationalist aspect of the BJP in India is well documented.
See:
Robert Eric Frykenberg, "Accounting for Fundamentalisms in South Asia: Ideologies and Institutions in Historical Perspective," in Accounting for Fundamentalisms, The Fundamentalism Project 4, eds., Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994), 591-616;
Ainslee T. Embree, "The Function of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh: To Defines the Hindu Nation," in Accounting for Fundamentalisms 4, 617-652;
Tanika Sarkar and Urvashi Butalia, eds., Women and the Hindu Right (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1995);
Walter K. Andersen, "Bharatiya Janata Party: Searching for the Face of Hindu Nationalism," in The New Politics of the Right: Neo-Populist Parties and Movements in Established Democracies, Hans-Georg Betz and Stefan Immerfall, eds., (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998);
-Chip Berlet