Hindutva

English

Etymology

From modern Sanskrit हिन्दुत्व (hindutva, “Hinduness”).

Proper noun

Hindutva

  1. The state or quality of being Hindu; now especially, the ideology of Hindu nationalism. [from 20th c.]
    • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin 2017, p. 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.

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