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Article: Through 'Hindu' Eyes.(India's Bharatiya Janata Party)(Brief Article)
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- The Nation
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- October 2, 2000
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New Delhi
When India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee addresses a joint session of Congress on September 14 and meets President Clinton at length the next day, it's a safe bet that few US leaders or reporters will be aware of the views Vajpayee represents. In some ways, his hard-right Hindu-sectarian Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party) is not very different from Jorg Haider's deceptively named Freedom Party in Austria, which also rules in a multiparty coalition. Both derive their inspiration from racial/ethnic nativism and from European fascism of the twenties and thirties. Their ideological gurus share the same predilection for a fiercely ...
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