The 1990s witnessed fervent discussion by scholars, writers and activists among others, of the rise of Hindutva, the communalization of Indian society and polity and the putative links of these processes with the communalism that marked the politics of India under colonial rule, particularly the kind that resulted in the formation of two nation-states, India and Pakistan, widely known as Partition. These discussions, by and large, seemed to point to the failure of nationalist politics, especially one that had its basis in communalism. The feminist intervention in this discussion was...
The 1990s witnessed fervent discussion by scholars, writers and activists among others, of the rise of Hindutva, the communalization of Indian society...