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September 20, 2008

Hindu Nationalism and the Indian National Congress in 40's and 50's

Economic and Political Weekly
September 13, 2008

The Hindutva Underground: Hindu Nationalism and the Indian National Congress in Late Colonial and Early Post-colonial India

by Manu Bhagavan

This paper explores the relationship between Hindu nationalism and the Congress in the 1940s and 1950s. It argues that the Congress knowingly and wilfully included and empowered Hindu nationalist ideologues in this period, most notably K M Munshi

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