The transnational routes of white and Hindu nationalisms

The targeting of social difference by the extreme right is no longer on the fringes of the nation-state. Instead, the far right provides the contours of national community while also dominating the arena of international politics. This paper traces the transnational dialogue that shapes the far righ...

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Published in:Ethnic and racial studies 2022-01, Vol.45 (2), p.319-339
Main Author: Ashutosh, Ishan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Colonialism
Contours
Ethnic identity
far right
Fringes
Hindu
Interconnections
International relations
Majority rule
Mapping
Nation
Nation states
Nationalism
race
Right wing politics
Systemic racism
Transnationalism
white
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Summary:The targeting of social difference by the extreme right is no longer on the fringes of the nation-state. Instead, the far right provides the contours of national community while also dominating the arena of international politics. This paper traces the transnational dialogue that shapes the far right's ideologies by examining the interconnections between Hindu and white nationalisms. I argue that their projects of cultural nationalism are not only global in their reach, but that they knit together conceptions of racial and religious difference that initially emerged within the contexts of settler colonialism in the United States, colonial science in India, and the strands of Indian anti-colonialism that fixated on majoritarian rule. I examine this mapping of identity/difference across a spatio-temporal terrain that moves from Aryan racial theory to right wing representations of contemporary protests against systemic racism that pose a challenge to both Hindu and white nationalisms.
ISSN:0141-9870
1466-4356
DOI:10.1080/01419870.2021.1924392