01103nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100002000041245011600061260003300177300003400210520071600244773003300960260522b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aArun Kumar, G.   aSacred geography and political imagination: Thiruparankundram and HINDUTVA’s Search for a Tamil ‘AYODHYA’  aEconomic & Political Weekly   a61(17), Apr 25, 2026: p.14-18  aThe Thiruparankundram controversy in Tamil Nadu is a site of communal mobilisation and political strategy rather than a mere religious or legal dispute. Hindu nationalist organisations have sought to transform an administrative and judicial intervention into a civilisatioanl conflict, projecting the site as a potential “Ayodhya of Tamil Nadu” to advance electoral polarisation. While the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government resisted overt communal escalation at the institutional level, Hindutva’s expansion primarily operates through cultural and social mobilisation beyond electoral politics.-Reproduced 

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