I had come across Tilak's theory about the origin of Aryans earlier, but didn't know that Max Muller was a great supporter of Tilak. The combination of these two people's work is hilarious. The following extract re: Tilak's hypothesis truly stretches human imagination to the limits. (But that was not all. I'll come to Golwalkar's…
The influence of Hindutva’s unique brand of realism on Modi’s foreign policy is apparent.
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January 01, 2021
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A spate of inquiries into the nature of rising India, specifically under the tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have attempted to examine the role of Hindutva as the guiding philosophical framework for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) foreign policy orientation. Present-day iterations of both the BJP and its key associate and ideological repository, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha (RSS), claim allegiance to long-standing Hindu ideas on politics, economics, and society.
These variegated ideas, espoused most prominently by figures such as Swami Vivekananda, V.D. Savarkar, H. V. Sheshadri, and M.S. Golwalkar, were formed during a period of Hindu renaissance in early to mid-20th century colonial India. At the time, these interlocutors attempted to define the religion’s scope in exclusivist “national” terms by adumbrating the requisit