“Marxist scholars are hijacking the Hindutva narrative – Arun Anand”, Bharata Bharati, Feburary 06, 2026
“By framing an ancient civilisational consciousness as a modern political invention, Marxist scholars are trying to erase millennia of India’s spiritual, cultural, and national continuity. Hindu nationalism, rooted in the Rig Vedic vision of unity and expressed through sacred geography and shared devotion, represents an organic and enduring sense of nationhood—one that long predates European constructs of the nation-state.. – Arun Anand
The irony couldn’t be lost. The Left, after being done and dusted in India both electorally and ideologically, has kicked off a new campaign for a new narrative. Hold your breath! The new narrative of the Left is that it should be given credit for the birth and rise of Hindu nationalism post-independence!
A number of post-colonial studies by Leftist scholars, as well as research papers, have started getting published across the world around this theme. This appears to be a part of a concerted and well-planned campaign to hijack the Hindutva narrative that is driving the Indian polity right now. The latest intellectual heist by the Left is US-based Marxist academic Meera Nanda’s book Postcolonial Theory and the Making of Hindu Nationalism: The Wages of Unreason. Nanda’s book is an attempt to strengthen this latest narrative peddled by her fellow Marxist intellectuals—that the Left’s efforts to decolonise the Indian mind resulted in the birth and rise of Hindu nationalism…….”
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