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Why the West finds Modi’s rise inconvenient
"The rise of Modi bothers the West because the BJP and Modi, unlike the Congress, appear to stand for the Hindu civilisation. This view may not be far off. Unlike the other parties, the BJP’s manifesto, explicitly invokes continuity with Hindu kingdoms of the past. It sees modern India, as not just born today, but as a continuity of an ancient civilisation. This threatens both the Christian Right and the Secular Left of the West, the two prongs of Western civilisational imperialism. The Christian Right sees the rise of a Hindu civilisation as threatening its conversion agenda, the Left sees it as a “religious” threat to the expansion of Western secular universalism.
Fed on Doniger-esque caricatures of Hinduism and partisan account of the Gujarat riots, they are inclined to view the rise of a Hindu party as an extremely distasteful and incomprehensible existential threat. Just as the a handful of British people ruled India with the help of a large number of Indian sepoys, the intellectual Indian sepoy army that has internalised the Western worldview, view this rise with the same distaste and actively write against it in India and abroad."
http://www.niticentral.com/2014/04/16/why-the-west-finds-modis-rise-inconvenient-212384.html
Fed on Doniger-esque caricatures of Hinduism and partisan account of the Gujarat riots, they are inclined to view the rise of a Hindu party as an extremely distasteful and incomprehensible existential threat. Just as the a handful of British people ruled India with the help of a large number of Indian sepoys, the intellectual Indian sepoy army that has internalised the Western worldview, view this rise with the same distaste and actively write against it in India and abroad."
http://www.niticentral.com/2014/04/16/why-the-west-finds-modis-rise-inconvenient-212384.html
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Re: Why the West finds Modi’s rise inconvenient
smArtha wrote:"The rise of Modi bothers the West because the BJP and Modi, unlike the Congress, appear to stand for the Hindu civilisation. This view may not be far off. Unlike the other parties, the BJP’s manifesto, explicitly invokes continuity with Hindu kingdoms of the past. It sees modern India, as not just born today, but as a continuity of an ancient civilisation. This threatens both the Christian Right and the Secular Left of the West, the two prongs of Western civilisational imperialism. The Christian Right sees the rise of a Hindu civilisation as threatening its conversion agenda, the Left sees it as a “religious” threat to the expansion of Western secular universalism.
Fed on Doniger-esque caricatures of Hinduism and partisan account of the Gujarat riots, they are inclined to view the rise of a Hindu party as an extremely distasteful and incomprehensible existential threat. Just as the a handful of British people ruled India with the help of a large number of Indian sepoys, the intellectual Indian sepoy army that has internalised the Western worldview, view this rise with the same distaste and actively write against it in India and abroad."
http://www.niticentral.com/2014/04/16/why-the-west-finds-modis-rise-inconvenient-212384.html
http://www.truthofgujarat.com/rise-right-wing-journalism/
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Re: Why the West finds Modi’s rise inconvenient
Rashmun wrote:
http://www.truthofgujarat.com/rise-right-wing-journalism/
Oh according to the libs and lefts only 'left leaning journalists, commentators, editors, scholars' are 'balanced'!! And they are threatened now that such a carefully manufactured mindset is being questioned and changed on the ground.
smArtha- Posts : 1229
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Re: Why the West finds Modi’s rise inconvenient
smArtha wrote:"The rise of Modi bothers the West because the BJP and Modi, unlike the Congress, appear to stand for the Hindu civilisation. This view may not be far off. Unlike the other parties, the BJP’s manifesto, explicitly invokes continuity with Hindu kingdoms of the past. It sees modern India, as not just born today, but as a continuity of an ancient civilisation. This threatens both the Christian Right and the Secular Left of the West, the two prongs of Western civilisational imperialism. The Christian Right sees the rise of a Hindu civilisation as threatening its conversion agenda, the Left sees it as a “religious” threat to the expansion of Western secular universalism.
Fed on Doniger-esque caricatures of Hinduism and partisan account of the Gujarat riots, they are inclined to view the rise of a Hindu party as an extremely distasteful and incomprehensible existential threat. Just as the a handful of British people ruled India with the help of a large number of Indian sepoys, the intellectual Indian sepoy army that has internalised the Western worldview, view this rise with the same distaste and actively write against it in India and abroad."
http://www.niticentral.com/2014/04/16/why-the-west-finds-modis-rise-inconvenient-212384.html
>>>In the end, the trump card will be India as a business partner. The western hand-wringing will end taking a back seat to commerce. I also agree with the author that a "hindu-ization" of Indian culture is not going to be the bogeyman it is being made out to be in certain quarters. Of course, the Christian right may not be happy about it given their agenda, but you can't please everyone all the time
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