Cultural Matrix of the Online Hindutva Discourse in India

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ID12908581
AuthorsA Ray (0000-0002-9043-7825, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume13
Issue1
Publication date2021-02-10
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions of South Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-2689 • E-ISSN: 1751-2697
PublisherEquinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/rosa.18332
OpenAlexW3113332243
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

The promise of ‘Digital India’ has, on the one hand, supplied a new vocabulary of political participation, and, on the other hand, consolidated techniques of statist control. Taking off from here, this article examines the constituency of the Hindutva discourse online, and how the performativity of Hindutva reconfigures the digital public sphere. It seeks to understand: How do the ideologues of Hindutva territorialize certain online spaces? How does the Internet equip them with new imaginations and vocabulary of political partisanship? How does this provoke the political Other—the counterpublics—against which their identity is recast and amplified? These three questions constitute the central problematic of the article

Blogosphere · Hindutva · Ideology · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · The Internet · Vocabulary · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics

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