these days lots of Indian twitter accounts that shown on my feed are itching for Hindutva.
P.S Not an Indian so Idk how they appeared on my feed.
P.S Not an Indian so Idk how they appeared on my feed.
“Hindutva is understood as a way of life of state of mind and is not to be equated with or understood as religious Hindu fundamentalism…it is a fallacy and error of law to proceed on the assumption…that the use of words Hindutva or Hinduism per se depicts an attitude hostile to all persons practicing any religion other than the Hindu religion.”
Legal definitions aren’t relevant to Twitter accounts. What matters is what’s animating the author.
This reminds me of the hacker/cracker and crypto qua -currency/-tography debates. Or, more pointedly, the Daughters of the Confederacy.
Legal definitions aren’t “actual definitions.” Nobody likes a term they’ve adopted to be coöpted. But it happens, and it’s happened with hindutva in English.