Le syncrétisme stratégique et la construction de l'identité nationaliste hindoue

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ID4469883
AuthorsChristophe Jaffrelot (0000-0002-8019-0398, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author)
Year1992
Volume42
Issue4
Pages594-617
Publication date1992-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevue française de science politique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0035-2950 • E-ISSN: 1950-6686
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/rfsp.1992.404327
OpenAlexW2317169013
LanguageFR
Citations received10

Strategic syncretism and the construction of the Hindu nationalist identity Hindu nationalist identity appears to have been built and developed as an ideology on the mode of "strategic syncretism " : faced with an Other of superior force or prestige, high-caste Hindus wanted to rehabilitate their culture by reforming it. They sought to import the cultural traits to which the " aggressors " superiority was attributed while claiming to return to the sources of their Tradition so as to legitimize such borrowings. This hypothesis is corroborated, when one examines a long period, by the social-religious reform movements, born in the 19th century from confrontation with the Christian missions, by the first Hindu nationalist party, the Hindu Mahasabha, relaunched in the 1920s in réaction to the panislamic militantism of the Muslim minority, by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which appeared under identical circumstances, and by the Vishva Hindu Parishad, founded in 1964 to fight against Christian and Muslim proselytizing

Caste · Hindu nationalism · Prestige · Syncretism (linguistics · Indian History and Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development

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