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3 unusual facts about Hindu nationalism


Hindu nationalism

The people of Junagarh rose in revolt and set up a parallel government under Gandhian leader and freedom fighter, Shri Samaldas Gandhi.

The National College at Lahore started by him became the centre for revolutionary ideas and was the college where revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh studied.

The other references include the glorification of the Chauhana heroes of Jalor as "Hindu" by Padmanabha in his epic poem, Kanhadade-prabandha, which he composed in AD 1455.


South Asia Faculty Network

One of their key contributors is Vijay Prashad, who attained notoriety for launching a diatribe against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during his visit to India.Prashad made numerous anti-Semitic canards against Jews and allegations of "Jewish Lobby" conspiracies and "Jews secretly collaborating with Hindu Nationalists" and how "Hindus are becoming like the Jews", evoking anti-Hindu conspiracy canards.


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Sadharan Brahmo Samaj

The new doctrine of Hindu nationalism is forcefully articulated before orthodox Hindu leaders of Calcutta by Adi Brahmo Samaj President Rajnarayan Basu, in a lecture entitled "The Superiority of Hinduism".