The suddhi movements led successively by the Arya samaj and the Hindu Mahasabha between 1885 and 1925 were founded on the reinterpretation of the Hindu purification ritual, but they included techniques of the Christian and Moslem rituals of conversion as well, so as to counter the proselytism of these two religions. Such an innovation-which led, notably, to attempts at bettering the social status of the untouchables-was opposed by the orthodox, whose support of the suddhi was mostly due to their feeling that the Hindu supremacy was threatened, and their conviction that there should be as many Hindus as possible. In the late 1920s, the movement subsided. After the Independence, the Constitution guaranteed the freedom to propagate one's faith...
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The suddhi movements led successively by the Arya samaj and the Hindu Mahasabha between 1885 and 192...
The suddhi movements led successively by the Arya samaj and the Hindu Mahasabha between 1885 and 192...
The súddhi ritual, as performed by the Ārya samāj, a Hindu reform movement founded at the end of the...
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Entre le xvie et le xviie siècle, les conversions au catholicisme observées dans le sud de l’Inde se...
Strategic syncretism and the construction of the Hindu nationalist identity Hindu nationalist identi...
International audienceWith an approach of social and cultural geography, this article examines the s...
The suddhi movements led successively by the Arya samaj and the Hindu Mahasabha between 1885 and 192...
The suddhi movements led successively by the Arya samaj and the Hindu Mahasabha between 1885 and 192...
The súddhi ritual, as performed by the Ārya samāj, a Hindu reform movement founded at the end of the...
Nepal is the last Hindu kingdom: the policy of her kings toward proselytism for the last two centuri...
Proselytism in India is both a stimulating theoretical problem and a burning political issue. Such z...
The foundation in Nepal of the World Hindu Federation, in 1981, occurs during a period of triumphati...
Incomparable or identical twins? Renouncers in Hinduism and in Islam. For centuries in India, Hind...
Djallal G. HEUZÉ — Nationalized and internationalized Hinduism Hinduism might be the set of religio...
Ritual Action or Political Reaction? The Invention of Hindu Nationalist Processions in the 80s—India...
From the broader debate on the phenomenon of conversion, it becomes clear that conversion to Christi...
The place of the state in hindu nationalist ideology The common assimilation of Hindu nationalism an...
This paper explores why and how Hindutva has been successful in its mission against Christianity in ...
Entre le xvie et le xviie siècle, les conversions au catholicisme observées dans le sud de l’Inde se...
Strategic syncretism and the construction of the Hindu nationalist identity Hindu nationalist identi...
International audienceWith an approach of social and cultural geography, this article examines the s...