Hindutva

//hɪnˈdʊtvə// name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a Hindutva group or a supporter of Hindutva. informal
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Hindudom. colloquial
  2. 2
    Hindu Rashtra. colloquial
  3. 3
    The state or quality of being Hindu
  4. 4
    The ideology of Hindu nationalism.

    "In India, too, people now wish to bring that argument to a close: to replace the ruckus of politics with the moralized ideology of Hindutva."

Synonyms

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hinduness

Example

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"Hindutva is an extremely dangerous form of fascism."

Etymology

Transliteration of Hindi हिंदुत्व (hindutva) / Bengali হিন্দুত্ব (hindutto, literally “Hinduness”). Coined by Chandranath Basu in 1892 and appropriated by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

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