Pan-Hindutva and the Discursive Practices of Digital (Counter)Publics around #SupportCAA 1

IF 0.7 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Pub Date : 2021-12-19 DOI:10.1080/13537113.2021.2004763

Avishek Ray

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Abstract

Abstract In December 2019, the Indian parliament implemented the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that gives non-Muslim immigrants from the neighboring countries an easy access to Indian citizenship. Across India, the CAA has garnered support and provoked protests in equal measure. This paper examines how #SupportCAA constantly negotiates between two parallel objectives: first, to achieve a pan-national unification of non-Muslim “Indians” (practically, Hindus); and second, to reconfigure India as a site for the pan-Hindutva communion against the Muslim Other. It seeks to understand: How does #SupportCAA as a platform furnish pan-Hindutva discourses, while rendering agency to an “imagined community” of pan-national CAA supporters? How do the CAA ideologues function as “networked publics,” and then go on to territorialize certain online spaces/fora? What does the CAA bequeath to the “imagined community” in question? What vocabulary of political partisanship does such territorialization furnish? How does it draw on the discourses of religious nationalism and remain nearly impervious to any dissent?

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泛印度教与数字(反)公众围绕#支持caa的话语实践

2019年12月，印度议会实施了《公民身份修正案》(CAA)，为来自邻国的非穆斯林移民提供了获得印度公民身份的便利。在印度各地，民航局获得了支持，同时也引发了抗议。本文考察了#SupportCAA如何在两个平行目标之间不断进行谈判:第一，实现非穆斯林“印度人”(实际上是印度教徒)的泛民族统一;第二，将印度重新配置为泛印度教共融的场所，以对抗穆斯林的他者。它试图理解:#SupportCAA作为一个平台，如何提供泛印度教话语，同时将代理提供给泛国家CAA支持者的“想象社区”?CAA的理论家们如何作为“网络公众”发挥作用，然后继续对某些在线空间/论坛进行领土化?CAA给“想象中的社区”留下了什么?这种领土化提供了什么样的政治党派关系词汇?它是如何利用宗教民族主义的话语，并保持几乎不受任何异议的影响?

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Nationalism and Ethnic Politics ETHNIC STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Nationalism & Ethnic Politics explores the varied political aspects of nationalism and ethnicity in order to develop more constructive inter-group relations. The journal publishes case studies and comparative and theoretical analyses. It deals with pluralism, ethno-nationalism, irredentism, separatism, and related phenomena, and examines processes and theories of ethnic identity formation, mobilization, conflict and accommodation in the context of political development and "nation-building". The journal compares and contrasts state and community claims, and deal with such factors as citizenship, race, religion, economic development, immigration, language, and the international environment.