Mobilization of Indian Youth in the Shiv Sena
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2906949 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Fainsod Katzenstein (Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 231 |
| Publication date | 1977-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2756300 |
| OpenAlex | W2331216585 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
T HE FORCES which arouse youth are distinct from those which mobilize an older population. Ideology or material incentives, central to most organizations, count less for youth. Of key importance, rather, is the pull of a phenomenon less easily described: belonging-ness; the exhilaration of being involved. The power of these feelings was manifested clearly in the youth of Germany in the I930s.' This same force was of crucial significance to the recent mobilization of Indian youth by the Shiv Sena in Bombay. The Shiv Sena (literally, army of Shivaji) takes its name from Shivaji Maharaj, the seventeenth-century warrior-hero of the Maharashtrian Empire. The Sena was formed to protest the influx of outsiders into Bombay. Maharashtrians, the Sena claimed, had suffered acutely from the incursions of migrants (principally, it was alleged, South Indians) who were said to be moving in vast numbers to Bombay and taking jobs away from the local people. The Sena was founded in I966, virtually overnight. Its initial organization occurred with a huge rally held in Bombay's Shivaji Park at which Bal Thackeray, the Sena's founder-leader, exhorted Maharashtrians to band together. Thousands of youths, it is reported, came forward to pay the one rupee membership fee and add their names to the Sena rosters.2 In the previous year, Thackeray had won attention by publishing in his weekly Marathi-language magazine a series of xenophobic editorials, cartoons, and exposes (lists, taken in some cases simply from the Bombay telephone directory, which enumerated the names of officers from Bombay's top firms). From the surnames, it was abundantly clear that Maharashtrians were poorly represented in the top echelons of Bombay's commercial establishments as well as in key government offices. Week by week, new
Mobilization · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · South Asian Cinema and Culture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |