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100			_aUpadhyay, Surya Prakash
245			_aRevisiting communalism and fundamentalism in India
260			_c2012
300			_ap.35-57.
362			_a8 Sep
520			_aThis comprehensive review of the literature on communalism - and its virulent offshoot, fundamentalism - in India considers the various perspectives from which the issue has sought to be understood, from precolonial and colonial times to the post-Independence period. The writings indicate that communalism is an outcome of the competitive aspirations of domination and counter-domination that began in colonial times. Cynical distortions of the democratic process and the politicisation of religion in the early decades of Independence intensified it. In recent years, economic liberalisation, the growth of opportunities and a multiplying middle class have further aggravated it. More alarmingly, since the 1980s, Hindu communalism has morphed into fundamentalism, with the Sangh parivar and its cultural politics of Hindutva playing ominous roles. - Reproduced.
650			_aCommunalism - India
650			_aCommunalism
700			_aRobinson, Rowena
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
908			_aN
909			_a97905
999			_c97904 _d97904