Its co-editor, Alistair McMillan, Research Officer, Nuffield College , Oxford, defines Hindutva thus: “Translated as Hinduness, it refers to the ideology of Hindu nationalists, stressing the common culture of the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent. …. In an obvious reference to Vajpayee and Advani, he wrote: “The carefully cultivated self-abnegation postures of some RSS-Jan Sangh leaders were but a flimsy facade for the power grabbing….” A little over a decade later, …

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