01070pab a2200169 454500 180718b2001 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Fuller, C.J. The `Vinayaka Chaturthi' festival and Hindutva in Tamil Nadu 2001 p.1607-616 12 May The increasing popularity of the Vinayaka festival in Tamil Nadu under the auspices of the Hindu Munnani is another example of the Sangh parivar's successful appropriation of localised, traditional Hindu rituals to create a wider `Hindu unity'. Though internal divisions of caste and class remain, as does factionalism among different Hindu organisations in the state, the primary goal for the parivar in the utilisation of such rituals is to persuade all Hindus to become conscious of belonging to a single, majority `community', rather than to initiate a campaign of social engineering to overcome caste divisions. - Reproduced Hinduism - India - Tamil Nadu Hinduism Economic and Political Weekly 48359 48359 48359 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 36, Issue no: 19 AR48787 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR