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Shri Ravi Dev is the Sanghachalak of Hindu Swamyamsevak Sangh (Guyana). He has been a Hindu activist for the past 27 years in Guyana, after 21 years in New York where he was a corporate executive and a member of the New York Bar.
Hegemony And Hindu Dharma In the West Indies – Part 10
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The Hindu counter-hegemony must be launched simultaneously on two fronts. Firstly there has to be a reinterpretation, reformation, reaffirmation and regrounding of its Dharmic institutions and traditions.
Hegemony And Hindu Dharma In the West Indies – Part 9
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The survival of Hindu Dharma necessitates a counter-hegemony. It has always been so in the long history of Hindu Dharma...
Hegemony And Hindu Dharma In the West Indies – Part 8
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Aesthetics becomes a key mediator vehicle in the struggle for and against Hegemonisation in our society. Aesthetics is more than music, dance...
Hegemony And Hindu Dharma In the West Indies – Part 7
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Every Sunday morning, across Guyana, thousands of Hindus stream into their village mandirs to participate in Satsanghs (congregational worship). Not many realize that this practice...
Hegemony And Hindu Dharma In the West Indies – Part 6
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Hindu Dharma was first practiced by the people living to the east of the river Indus - in Bharat. To its adherents, however, it was simply...
Hegemony and Hindu Dharma in West Indies : Part 5
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M.K. Gandhi
Gandhi, for mostly personal reasons of his own, accepted the British definition of Hindu ‘spirituality’ with its strong anti-physicality element. Initially, he defended...
Hegemony and Hindu Dharma in the West Indies – Part 4
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The Content of the Hegemony: Defining the British Identity
Even though Britain of 1757-1835 was not much different from Bharat of the same period, and...
Hegemony and Hindu Dharma in the West Indies – Part 3
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Defining the Hindu Identity
As we mentioned earlier, the symbolic force is transmitted through a most wide array of apparatuses. One of the most effective apparatuses...
Hegemony and Hindu Dharma in the West Indies – Part 2
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Symbolic Force
The hegemon imposes the new paradigm of hegemony by utilizing the traditional methods of imparting information. In modern societies these include schools, bureaucracies, armies,...
Hegemony and Hindu Dharma in the West Indies: Part 1
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“The strongest man is never so strong enough to be master all the time, unless he transforms force into right and obedience into duty.”...