Akhand Bharat
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Akhand Bharat
Not to be confused with Greater India.
Akhand Bharat (Hindustani: अखण्ड भारत (Devanagari)) or Undivided India is an irredentist call to include Pakistan and Bangladesh into India to form a Hindu Rashtra raised by mainstream Indian political organization Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).[1][2][3] Maps of Akhand Bharat are circulated showing the sovereign countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh as part of India.[2] Reclaiming the "Hindudom" of Akhand Bharat was a big reason behind the demolition of Babri Masjid,[1][4] which caused the death of at least 2,000 people in 1992.[5] Formation of an Akhand Bharat is ideologically connected with the ideas of sangathan (Hindu unity) and shuddhi (purification).[3]
While BJP leadership wavers on the issue, RSS always remained a proponent of the idea.[6][7] RSS leader H. V. Seshadri's book The Tragic Story of Partition stresses the importance of the concept of Akhand Bharat.[8] RSS in-house newspaper Organiser published another party leader Mohan Bhagwat saying that only Akhand Bharat and Sampoorna Samaj (united society) can bring real freedom.[9]
A Hindu nationalist terror group responsible for 2006 Malegaon blasts has adopted the name Akhanda Bharat.[10]
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References
- ^ a b Yale H. Ferguson and R. J. Barry Jones, Political space: frontiers of change and governance in a globalizing world, page 155, SUNY Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7914-5460-2
- ^ a b Sucheta Majumder, "Right Wing Mobilization in India", Feminist Review, issue 49, page 17, Routledge, 1995, ISBN 978-0-415-12375-4
- ^ a b Ulrika Mårtensson and Jennifer Bailey, Fundamentalism in the Modern World (Volume 1), page 97, I.B.Tauris, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84885-330-0
- ^ Alison Blunt, Domicile and Diaspora, page 29, John Wiley & Sons, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4443-9918-9
- ^ "Timeline: Ayodhya crisis", BBC News, 2003-10-17.
- ^ Jyotirmaya Sharma, "Ideological heresy?, The Hindu, 2005-06-19
- ^ Radhika Ramaseshan, "Advani fires Atal weapon", The Telegraph, 2005-06-16
- ^ Ashish Vashi, "Anti-Sardar Patel book sold from RSS HQ in Gujarat", The Times of India, 2009-08-27
- ^ Manini Chatterjee, "Only by Akhand Bharat", The Indian Express, 2007-02-01
- ^ Praveen Swami, "Behind Sanatan Sanstha’s spiritual veil, a militarist face", The Hindu, 2009-10-19
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