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Defence Against Terrorism Review

Vol.3, No. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 25-52
Copyright © COE-DAT
ISSN: 1307-9190

Hindutva and Terrorism:

Implications for Federal India

Arshi KHAN
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

Abstract: The diversity of India’s social realities and historical identities, as well as
its centuries of experiences with social cohabitation, has brought about an evolving
recognition of the federal polity. Diversity is well recognized in India’s Constitution, in
relation to both national minorities and those who are dispersed in areas dominated by the
majority religious community. Despite adhering to the principle of ‘common citizenship,’
the concept of group/cultural rights is also embedded in the 1950 Constitu¬tion. On
the other hand, India’s territorial vastness and regional variations have been dealt
with by federal political arrangements, both symmetrical and asymmetrical, for
the states of the Indian Union on the basis of cultural, linguistic and ethnic factors.

Keyword: Hindutva, terrorism, muslims, federalism

Introduction

Republica Christiana
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Millet system

Millet system
demos

Federal Attributes of Indian Polity

European
Yearbook of Minority Issues
2 Federal India: A Design for
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Emerging Threats to the Social Order

International Conference on Federalism

2002:Federalism in Changing World – Learning From Each Other
2002.
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is

Hindutva
Hindutva and Terrorism: Implications for Federal India

Hindutva

The Milli Gazette

Radiance
i, “ The Indian
Express
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Hindutva,

Hindutva

Hindutva: From Communal Politics to Communal Terrorism

Hindutva

The Times of India

The Times of India

.
Fascism in India: Faces, Fangs and Facts
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Hindutva

Hindutva
Sangh parivar, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Sangh

Hindutva’

10

Minorities and Police in India

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11

12

13

Hindutva

Draft Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism

11 The Hindu
12 Minorities and Police in India
13
UNSW Law Journal Volume 27(2)

Hindutva: Treason and Terrorism

International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing
of Terrorism
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Terrorism Act 2000

cause.

University of New South

Wales Law
Who Killed Karkare? The Real Face of Terrorism in India
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Sangh parivar.
20

21

22

Automacity of Fascism: Anti-Muslim Riots

23

20 The Brotherhood in Saffron The Rashtriya Swayamsevak

Sangh and Hindu Revivalism,
21 Fascism in India: Faces,
Fangs and Facts
22
in India
23 Communal Riots After Independence
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Year No. of No. of persons Injured

incidents as killed
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Total 13952 14686 68182

Sangh

Ultimate Goal of Sangh Terrorism

Bewildered India: Identity, Pluralism,

Hindutva and Terrorism: Implications for Federal India

Sangh Parivar
Sangh

Sangh

Sangh

Mujahideen
ulema

Sangh

Sangh parivar

Sangh

Sangh
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Sangh

Sangh parivar

Sangh

Sangh

Communal Terrorism of the Sangh Parivar in Gujarat

30

mazar

The Hindu,
Communal Rage in Secular India,

Fascism in India
Fascism in India
30 The Hindu
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31

Sangh Parivar
Hindutva

32

33

Sangh parivar

Sangh parivar

The Hindu
The Times of India

Economic and Political Weekly

Link
 Arshi KHAN

Sangh parivar

Sangh parivar
lumpen

Sangh
Sangh

Sangh parivar

Sangh

Sangh
Sangh

Sangh parivar.

National Herald
The Hindustan Times Indian Express New Time
The Times of India
Economic and Political Weekly
India Today
The Patriot
Mainstream

Radiance
Bewildered India: Identity, Pluralism, Discord
The Economic Times
Indian Express,
Hindutva and Terrorism: Implications for Federal India

Sangh parivar

The Hindu
Human Rights Watch Report

Press Trust of India

Washington
Post
Fascism in India
The Economic Times
Fascism in India
Fascism in India

Fascism in India
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no

Sangh

Sangh

Vishwa Hindu Parishad

Sangh

Sardar Patel Correspondence

Fascism in India

Fascism in India

Outlook

Fascism in India
Hindutva and Terrorism: Implications for Federal India

Sangh

Sangh

The Human Rights Watch said in its report:

The Case of Bomb-Blasts: Unfolding Linkages

Sangh

The Hindutan Times

The Hindustan Times
Communal Rage in Secular India
The Times of India
 Arshi KHAN

Sangh parivar.

Sangh
Sangh
Sangh

Sangh
parivar

Sangh

karsevaks

Startling Evidences of Terrorism

.
Patriot
Hindutva and Terrorism: Implications for Federal India

Mujahideen

Deccan Urdu Mujahideen

Sangh parivar

Sangh

Sangh parivar

Sangh

Sangh

Sangh parivar

The Times of India

The Times of India
Sunday Express
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Sangh parivar

parivar parivar

parivar

Sangh parivar

In

parivar

Lokmat

The Times of India,

The Milli Gazette,
The Times of India,
Dainik Bhaskar,
The Milli Gazette,
Pudhari,
The Milli Gazette,
The Milli Gazette,
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parivar

parivar

100

101

102

Sangh parivar

India Today,
The Milli Gazette,

Communalism Combat
Shodhan

The Milli Gazette,

100 Communalism Combat Outlook
101 The Times of India,
102 The Milli Gazette,
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103

Sangh

namaz

Sanatan Sanstha
Diwali

incid

103 The Hindu,

The Indian Express The Times of India
The
Milli Gazette Jagran Rashtriya

The Milli Gazette

.
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111

112

113

Sangh parivar,

s.
110

Tehelka,

The Hindu
The Sunday Express
The Hindu
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Hindutva

Hindutva

Hindutva

Hindutva

local Sangh Parivar

Outlook

Times News Network

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Hindutva Hindutva

120

121

122

Hindutva

Economic And Political Weekly

Outlook
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Hindutva
123

Hindutva

Sangh parivar

Expressindia

Radiance