Hindu Nationalism, uncontaminated, has taken series of meaningful alterations and inherent structural flexibility narrating the growing pace of Modern Indian Politics. The interesting thing with this kind of native Nationalism is often the ‘negative’ connotation indicated in the academic researches that often revitalizes the ‘negative’ side as a sort of the nationalism that developed out of Hindu religious values system. Religio-communal factor is narrated in the book, reflecting religion and culture Hindu nationalism and Hindu Nationalist issues to indicate the growth of nationalist ambivalence with internalized religious feeling, largely perceived as an ‘internal threat’ to the greater process of ‘secularization’ at work in India. Communal consciousness often gets entangled with the “Hindutva” element supporting the dominant, structure of power for domination and political advantages. Nehru himself refers to it as a ‘pure’ form of nationalism, unsullied, in theory, by the primordial pulls of caste, religious community, etc, process of recovering Hindu identity is seen largely as a threat to other religious groups and minorities who equally share the “Hinduvized” structural reality into their individualized identities. The book co-authored is a shortened version of debates and critical positions directly or indirectly related to Hindu nationalism, which, hopefully, can assist in re-thinking the much interrogated “Hindu” framework in contemporary India.
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