SWAMINARAYAN MOVEMENT. Chronologically located between the "bhakti renaissance" of the medieval period and the early to mid-nineteenth-century Hindu revivalism of colonial India, the Swaminarayan movement is a devotional tradition rooted...

For Veer Savarkar's book, see Hindutva (book). Hindutva ("Hinduness", a word coined by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in his 1923 pamphlet entitled Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? ) is used to describe movements advocating Hindu nationalism. The former ruling...

While only those who planned the December demolition of the Babri mosque at Ayodhya really expected it, hindsight suggests that the destruction evolved almost naturally out of the grim dynamic of rational action and uncontrolled violence that has long characterized South Asian communalism....

Edited by Mark T. B. Laing. New Delhi: ISPCK, 2005. Pp. xiii, 278. Rs 225 / $14. Over the past two decades, India has seen a resurgence of Hindu nationalist activity, often expressed through violence toward Muslim and Christian minorities. This important...

In the narrow alleys where Muslim families cowered from murderous Hindu mobs, the survivors still fear one man above all others.Narendra Modi's bearded face stares from street corners, T-shirts, key chains and mugs in the western Indian state of Gujarat, where he's in a grueling...