Dimming of the Thackeray son

Shubham
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Can UBT-Sena’s dismal efficiency within the lately concluded meeting elections be attributed to its abandoning of genuine Hindutva? One might agree if opponents of Uddhav Thackeray are to be believed. UBT-Sena appears to have produced a pretend Bahujanist ‘Hindutva’ that’s anti-Brahmin and even garners Muslim votes. Shiv Sena nevertheless was not a ‘Hindutva’ occasion to start with. Solely the latter half of its 60-year trajectory has been dedicated to Hindutva.

Maharashtra is the one state in India the place a regional/Marathi Hindutva grew and unfold quickly by means of Bal Thackeray’s Shiv Sena. Shiv Sena moved from mobilising sentiments and pursuits of Marathi working courses in opposition to South Indians, North Indians, Communists and Dalit Panthers for the reason that late Nineteen Sixties to an anti-Muslim Hindu nationalist posture within the Nineties. This regional Hindutva has helped BJP consolidate its presence in Maharashtra during the last 4 many years. Is the motion from Marathi chauvinism to nationalist Hinduism a mere accident or does this tectonic social shift have some ideological and materials compulsions?

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