CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Banerjee, Debraj |
|---|---|
| Title | The Nation and its Aliens: Contentions of Citizenship under a Hindu Nationalist Regime |
| Summary | The aim of this research is to connect the linkages of the current citizenship crisis associated with the massive bureaucratic exercises of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the National Population Register (NPR) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) with the Hindu nationalist (Hindutva) discourse. Evolution of Hindu nationalism bears direct relationship to the trajectory of the Indian state which now chooses a stringent approach to identify “illegal immigration” on one hand and simultaneously create a chunk of stateless people by offering selective citizenship. The evolution of Hindu nationalism is multifarious and hence poses a challenge to place all aspects under the rubric of a MA research. The intention here is to investigate the texts of Hindutva produced by ideologues like V.D. Savarkar and M.S. Golwalkar and explore major tenets that argue about residency, citizenship, “true inhabitants”, Muslim counterparts and so on. The objective is not to look at the citizenship crisis as an isolated event, rather its relevance lies in the blueprint of Hindu nationalism which has already given a clarion call for transforming India into a Hindu Rashtra (Nation). |
| Supervisor | Pap András László |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/banerjee_debraj.pdf |
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