Ramayana and political imagination in India
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The 'Ramayana' presents an ideal political situation to be emulated, and its evil counterpart to be shunned. These concepts were prevalent in West and North Indian politics from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries, and have been revived in the 1990s by the political party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP claims that its ideology is based on the 'Ramayana,' and it visualizes an anti-muslim Hindu state. The influence of the 'Ramayana' on the political orientation in different ages is examined.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 1993
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The transformation of ethnic politics in India: the decline of Congress and the rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Hoshiarpur
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Issues are presented concerning the benefits which the Bahujan Samaj Party gained in the 1980s and 1990s from the support it received from the Scheduled Castes who had previously supported the Congress Party in India.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 2000
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Is India becoming more democratic?
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Issues are presented concerning the reduction in the dominance of the Congress party and the developments which have taken place in the political nature of India during the 1990s. North and south India are compared.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 2000
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Now socity to create the Ramayana is poltical thing but this is wronge suggested to people i am not to agree the Ramayana is poltical. The Ramayana and Mahabharath these are two ithiyas that maeans really history >this is not story .
i have writer of sri Ramaramayana since 16 years ago and Research the Ramayana sethu and Lanka.