Narendra Modi between Hindutva and subnationalism

The Gujarati asmita of a Hindu Hriday Samrat

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ID12711995
AuthorsChristophe Jaffrelot (0000-0002-8019-0398, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume15
Issue2
Pages196-217
Publication date2016-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIndia Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1473-6489 • E-ISSN: 1557-3036
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14736489.2016.1165557
OpenAlexW2346148565
LanguageEN
Citations received21

After the 2002 pogrom, Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, shifted his political repertoire from that of a Hindu Hriday Samrat (King of Hindus’ heart) to that of development and Gujaratiness. He claimed that he was a development man (Vikas Purush) and that he represented the 60 million Gujaratis as an aam admi (common man). He projected himself as an embodiment of their identity—asmita. This populist repertoire, which was explicitly articulated during the Sadbhavna mission in 2012, is in tune with the general trend of Indian politics where most of the Chief Ministers claim to epitomize one subnationalism. In the case of Narendra Modi, however, this regional identity was defined in religious terms and reflected a banalization of Hindutva, an original process that was more likely to happen in Gujarat because of the traditional definition of the state’s identity

Aesthetics · Art · Gujarati · Hinduism · Hindutva · Identity (music · Ideology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Repertoire · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religious studies · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Cinema and Culture

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