Hindutva

English Etymology en hi हिंदुत्व / en bn হিন্দুত্ব Hinduness 1. en Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 1 in its literal sense, in his novel Anandamath, published in 1882. The term was popularised by Chatterjee's friend Chandranath Basu in his magnum opus titled "Hindutva : Hindur Prakrita Itihaas", published in 1892. It was later appropriated and popularised in its modern political sense by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in his political pamphlet titled "Hindutva : Who is a Hindu?", published in 1923. Pronunciation en /hɪnˈdʊtvə/ RP en /hinˈdətvə/ /hɪnˈdətvə/ GA en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Hindutva.wav US Proper noun The state or quality of being Hindu en politics The ideology of Hindu nationalism en 2016 w:Sunil Khilnani Incarnations Penguin 284 In India, too, people now wish to bring that argument to a close: to replace the ruckus of politics with the moralized ideology of Hindutva. en Ross Douthat Yes, There Is a Clash of Civilizations The New York Times 2022-03-30 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/opinion/ukraine-clash-of-civilizations.html 0362-4331 China’s one-party meritocracy, Putin’s uncrowned czardom, the post-Arab Spring triumph of dictatorship and monarchy over religious populism in the Middle East, the Hindutva populism transforming Indian democracy — these aren’t just all indistinguishable forms of “autocracy,” but culturally distinctive developments that fit well with Huntington’s typology, his assumption that specific civilizational inheritances would manifest themselves as Western power diminishes, as American might recedes. https://web.archive.org/web/20251023053704/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/opinion/ukraine-clash-of-civilizations.html 23 October 2025 Derived terms en Hindutvist H-pop Related terms en Hindutvavadi en Hinduness Translations Arabic: ar الهِنْدُوتْفَا f, ar القَوْمِيَّةُ الهِنْدُوسِيَّة f Bengali: bn হিন্দুত্ব Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 印度教特性 yìndùjiào tèxìng, cmn 印度教民族主義 yìndùjiào mínzú zhǔyì Gujarati: gu હિંદુત્વ n Hindi: hi हिंदुत्व m Japanese: ja ヒンドゥトヴァ hindutova, ja ヒンドゥー国民主義 hindū kokumin shugi Korean: ko 힌두트바, ko 힌두 민족주의 Sanskrit: sa हिन्दुत्व n हिन्दुत्वम्, sa सनातनत्व n सनातनत्वम् pure Urdu: ur ہِنْدُوتوا m See also en saffronization en Hindudom en Hindu Rashtra en bhagwa, en chaddi, en sanghi, en bhakt (terms for Hindutva supporters, often used derogatorily & pejoratively) en swayamsevak (a member of RSS, a Hindutva paramilitary organisation) Noun en informal A member of a Hindutva group or a supporter of Hindutva. en Conservatism Hinduism Nationalism Indian politics Hindutva Ideologies