Jaffrelot: Hindu Nationalism

In India and beyond, Hindu nationalism came into the headlines in the 1990s, when the Ayodhya movement - to build a temple in place of a mosque - gained momentum. This was when the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power. This stream of Indian politics is, however, considerably older: in fact older than the Left, the Congress, and any other. >>>