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India's Bharatiya Janate Party: Nationalism, religious zeal and political opportunism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	India's Bharatiya Janate Party: Nationalism, religious zeal and political opportunism./
Author:	Zagardo, Donald V.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2012,
Description:	140 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 73-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International73-08A.
Subject:	Modern history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3489103
ISBN:	9781267070463

India's Bharatiya Janate Party: Nationalism, religious zeal and political opportunism.
Zagardo, Donald V.

India's Bharatiya Janate Party: Nationalism, religious zeal and political opportunism. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2012 - 140 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 73-08, Section: A.

Thesis (D.A.)--St. John's University (New York), 2012.

This project's actual beginning was in 2004, at the time of my first Doctor of Arts seminar. The purpose of my endeavor then was to find meaning and gain understanding of the political and social difficulties faced by Christians, Christian missionaries and Christian institutions in India, a problem that I became aware of a few years earlier as a visitor and student of Hindi. Much of my time in India was spent with Christian missionaries in the town of Mussoorie, 150 miles north of Delhi, at the Rokeby Guesthouse and Landour Language School. Stories told of violence and persecution at both official and informal levels were continual and unsettling. I wanted to know more about the Hindu nationalist movement that was responsible for the problems my friends spoke of, that was at that time filtering through to all aspects of Indian and Christian life. When the opportunity came for further study at St. John's University, I jumped at the chance and began my research. This thesis, my Doctor of Arts research essay, is in some ways a continuation of that 2004 project on Hindu nationalism and violence, but views India more as a dynamic, political nation than a cultural or even religious one. It brings focus upon the issues that identify India's political parties, particularly the BJP, as both a globalizing and nationalizing entity and attempts eventually, to justify that duality. Within this dissertation is assembled information and examples selected in order to paint a practical depiction of India's political environment and to illustrate and address the promises and problems of BJP Hindutva , the Muslim minority and its place within political and social India, anti-poverty programs both national and local, and communal violence. These examples illustrate the changing tides of South Asian life, the depth of conflict between secularism and religion and the desire of many Indian leaders to move their nation forward toward internationalism, globalization and technological superiority. I have as well created a narrative based on specific events such as the Babri Masjid saga and Godhra train burning tragedy to demonstrate that tension and violence are an inexorable part of India. I sincerely believe that a unique document has been produced and shaped that clearly represents India's political-social structure and its daunting challenges while rendering BJP identity, philosophy and design, clear and understandable.

ISBN: 9781267070463Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122829
Modern history.
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BJP

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