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100			_aFuller, C.J.
245			_aThe `Vinayaka Chaturthi' festival and Hindutva in Tamil Nadu
260			_c2001
300			_ap.1607-616
362			_a12 May
520			_aThe 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
650			_aHinduism - India - Tamil Nadu
650			_aHinduism
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a48359
999			_c48359 _d48359