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The Hindu Renaissance and its Apologetic Patterns

Bharati, Agehananda·1970·The Journal of Asian Studies
DOI 10.2307/2942625
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Abstract An anthropological and linguistic analysis of the idiom of modern Hindu religious specialists and their followers, an audience which embraces all English speaking Indians and a large segment of the urban populations of India. The highly eclectic, quasi-secular and neo-Hindu ideology inaugurated by such charismatics as Vivekananda, other “Swamis” and interiorized by Indian nationalists, expresses itself in a highly stereotyped coded parlance, informed by Victorian English as well as by diffuse elements which could be described as a Hindu Protestant Ethic. Both systematic and conscious obfuscation of scriptural categories as well as complex but predictable patterns of dissimulation extending over virtually all types of cultural and social discourse—the caste-system, “superstitions,” the “scientific” base of Hinduism, political talk, etc., are adduced and investigated as paradigms of contemporary Indian parlance, which is not the grass-roots idiom, but which is gathering momentum as the forensic instrument of India's leadership and of Indian administrators, educators, and the Indian intellectuals.

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Authors
Bharati, A.
Corresponding author
Bharati, Agehananda
Venue
The Journal of Asian Studies
Publisher
Duke University Press
Published
1970-02-01
Volume
29
Issue
2
Pages
267-287
ISSN
  • 0021-9118 (ISSN-L)
  • 1752-0401
DOI
10.2307/2942625
OpenAlex
W2129709339
Cited by
145
References
32
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 6 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
FWCI
8.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 15025 d)
Locations
The Journal of Asian Studies (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › South Asian Studies and Diaspora
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Cultural and political discourse analysis
Keywords
Hindu nationalism, neo-Hinduism, Swami Vivekananda, Swami, religious discourse, coded language, caste, superstition, Hindu scripture, Indian nationalism, Indian intellectuals, Victorian English

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