Essay: Ramdev's agenda is political, not civil
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While liberals dismiss Baba Ramdev's anti-graft agitation as an aberration, there is a clear-cut agenda in his politics. It is intrinsically linked to a revival of Neo-Hindutva dreams. The Strange Case of Baba Ramdev A young Yadav lad, the son of a low-income Haryana farmer, grows up in the decade of the seventies, the low-point of Nehruvian socialism. He is put through middle school with considerable financial strain on his family. The young boy goes through impressionable years of his life learning of an India of historical greatness, the dreams and aspirations that history textbooks routinely weave in telling a heroic narrative of the nation's struggle to come into its own. A picture of Ram Prasad 'Bismil' and Subhas Chandra Bose allegedly hang in his room. Perhaps he is taken out of the government school that he attends and sent to a gurukul-type private school....
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Varuni Bhatia is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US.
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