Essentials of Hindutva
 Coverpage of the Book's Second Edition. | |
| Author | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar |
|---|---|
| Country | India |
| Language | en |
| Publisher | Hindi Sahitya Sadan |
Publication date | 1923 |
| ISBN | 9-788-188-38825-7 |
| OCLC | 0670049905 |
Essentials of Hindutva[1][2] is an ideological epigraph by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar published in 1923. It was retitled Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu? (with the second phrase as a subtitle) when reprinted in 1928. Savarkar's epigraph forms part of the canon of works published during British rule that later influenced post-independence contemporary Hindu nationalism.[3]
Themes
Savarkar used the term "Hindutva" (Sanskrit -tva, neuter abstract suffix) to describe "Hinduness" or the "quality of being a Hindu".[4][failed verification] Savarkar regarded Hinduism as an ethnic, cultural and political identity.[citation needed] Hindus, according to Savarkar, are those who consider India to be the land in which their ancestors lived, as well as the land in which their religion originated: "one for whom India is both Fatherland and Holyland".[5]
Sarvakar includes all Indian religions in the term "Hinduism" and outlines his vision of a "Hindu Rashtra" (Hindu Nation) as "Akhand Bharat" (Undivided India), stretching across the entire Indian subcontinent.
"We Hindus are bound together not only by the tie of the love we bear to a common fatherland and by the common blood that courses through our veins and keeps our hearts throbbing and our affections warm, but also by the tie of the common homage we pay to our great civilization - our Hindu culture" Fifth Edition 1969 p91 (Internet Archive PDF p108)
Savarkar wrote the pamphlet while imprisoned for his alleged role in the assassination of William Hutt Curzon Wyllie.[6]
References
- ^ Chaturvedi, Hindutva and Violence (2022), pp. 16–17.
- ^ Basu, The Rhetoric of Hindu India (2017), p. 23.
- ^ Peter Lyon (2008), Conflict between India and Pakistan: an encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, p. 75, ISBN 978-1-57607-712-2
- ^ Women, States, and Nationalism. Routledge. pp. 104–. ISBN 978-0-203-37368-2. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
- ^ Elst, Koenraad (5 July 2001). Decolonizing the Hindu Mind: Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism. Rupa & Company. p. 140. ISBN 9788171675197 – via Google Books.
It was during his stay in Ratnagiri prison, in 1922, that he wrote his influential book Hindutva (“Hindu-ness”). The text was smuggled out and published under a pseudonym. The highlight of the book was his definition of the term Hindu: “one for whom India is both Fatherland and Holyland”.
- ^ Shōgimen, Takashi; Nederman, Cary J. (2009), Western political thought in dialogue with Asia, Lexington Books, p. 190, ISBN 978-0-7391-2378-2
Bibliography
- Basu, Manisha (2017), The Rhetoric of Hindu India, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107149878
- Chaturvedi, Vinayak (2022), Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Politics of History, SUNY Press, ISBN 9781438488783
External links
- Essentials of Hindutva, First Edition, 1923, publisher: V. V. Kalkar, Nagapur. Via archive.org
- Hindutva (Who Is A Hindu?), Fifth Edition, Veer Savarkar Prakashan, 1969. Via archive.org
- Essentials of Hindutva, Unknown edition, digital text via savarkar.org
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