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...

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...