This book is a critical study of six selected Hindu nationalists of modern India - Swami Dayananda Saraswati (1824-1883); Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902); Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920); Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966); Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar (1906-1973) and Sita Ram Goel (1921-2003) - in order to trace the intellectual genealogy of Hindu cultural nationalism and fundamentalism. Behind each of these there is a dark and hidden history of religious fundamentalism; fanaticism; narrow-minded nationalism; anti-minoritism; anti-secularism and intolerance. But; unfortunately; this is not always known to the people. The present study is an attempt to highlight these less known facts; and also demonstrate that contemporary Hindu cultural nationalism and fundamentalism have their ideological roots in the past. This book will be of interest not only to students; academicians and scholars but also to those who wish to know the facts relating to the rise of certain Hindu nationalist and fundamentalist organisations; political parties; groups; movements and associations; their methods of mass mobilisation and indoctrination; their anti-minority syndrome and militant orientations manifested especially in their attitude towards the Indian Christians and Muslims.
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