basis of grammer, Hindutva is simply state of being Hindu.
The terminology initially coined by Babu Chandra Nath in his Hindutva--Hindur Prakrita Itihas attempts through Upanishads and coining the term Hindutva the exposition and eventual
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[THREAD] on #Hindutva_is_Hinduism
Hindutva is formed by adding -tva suffix (Pratyay) to Hindu. Now, what do we understand by -tva? In plain language adding -tva (ness) to a noun means :in state of being that noun. Eg. Naritva, Astitva, Prabhutva. Therefore, on the
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basis of grammer, Hindutva is simply state of being Hindu.
The terminology initially coined by Babu Chandra Nath in his Hindutva--Hindur Prakrita Itihas attempts through Upanishads and coining the term Hindutva the exposition and eventual
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integration of the deepest and abstrutest doctrines of 'Hinduism' where Hindus are notorious for having extremely diverse transcendental doctrines and make a comparative study with foreign belief systems primarily Xnity in the wake of forced
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English Education and Anglicization of the masses. So what we observe that the need to integrate extremely diverse belief systems of Bharat Civilization arose as a response to Abrahamic extremism onslaught.
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The follow up and popularization of the word was done through Savarkar who too defined Hindutva as a state of being Hindu or closest English translation as Hinduness. In his book he further goes on to propound and attempts to draw from History what
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Hindu would mean, how it's more than a mere geogrophical identity and what the state of being Hindu would imply. This too seems to be along the same lines of his predecessor who too in the light such huge diversity that Bhartiya Civilization allows
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with respect to ontological enquiry systems attempted to draw the underlying unifying aspect that binds the Civilizational entity. His discussion revolves around the idea of Sindhu Civilizational and cultural identity along with its practices,
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heritage and the spirit of Nationalism regarding this identity and asserts the need to defend this identity, the way of life.
Now the terminology Hinduism was coined had been used as a disparaging address the religious beliefs and cultural
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practices of the people of India.
In the USA of the mid 19th century, the phrase "the isms" was used as a collective derogatory term to lump together the radical social reform movements of the day (such as slavery abolitionism, feminism,
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alcohol prohibitionism, Fourierism, pacifism, early socialism, etc).
Savarkar explains Hinduism as only a fraction or a part of Hindutva and explains it similarly as collective religion or religions of the people of the Sindhu land but further
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states that the conflict with understanding who is a Hindu and what is Hinduism creates a friction not needed by us, even questions the use of Hinduism altogether. The discussion he claims is insufficient and outside our scope of enquiry.
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Now it is also essential to bring in the views of Shree Aurobindo who also around the time established the Civilizational identity and a unified National identity based on that. In his famous Uttarpara speech laid the ideological foundation for
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