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- From: rajesh@juniper.WPI.EDU (Rajesh Raman)
- Subject: Re: WE ARE ALL 'KAR SEVAKS' NOW by Swapan Dasgupta
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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 00:25:33 GMT
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- Alok Agarwal (aagarwal@Cadence.COM) wrote:
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- : Veer Savarkar grasped this distinction as early as in 1923. "Hindutva", he
- : wrote, "is not a word but a history. Not only the religious and spiritual
- : history of our people as at times it is mistaken to be by being confounded
- : with the other cognate term, Hinduism... Hinduism is only a derivative,
- : a fraction, a part of Hindutva... Failure to distinguish between these two
- : concepts has given rise to much misunderstanding".
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- What is Hindutva ? What is Hinduism ? Is it what is generally
- understoood as Hinduism or is it something else you wanted to say ?
- What is the difference between Hindutva and Hinduism ?
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- I ask all this out of ignorance.
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- Rajesh Raman
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