Hindu Political Theology: Beyond Hindutva’s Political Monotheism

“Hindu Political Theology: Beyond Hindutva’s Political Monotheism,” an Outcome archive entry by Pranay Somayajula. The entry belongs to the jcrt collection and connects readers to scholarship, public history, and organizing around the Doctrine of Discovery, Christian domination, Indigenous sovereignty, law, religion, land, memory, and accountability.

In brief, it addresses Somayajula reads Hindutva as political theology, showing how Hindu nationalism flattens religious diversity and urging a more inclusive Hindu identity.. For readers arriving from the main Doctrine of Discovery site, this post functions as a pointer rather than a replacement for the full Outcome record. The canonical page preserves the complete context, metadata, author information, citation links, media, and neighboring materials in the archive.

The source text highlights terms and contexts including This paper, presented in December 2023 at the “Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery” conference at Syracuse University, analyzes the rise of Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, through the framework of ‘political theology’ that was developed in the early 20th century by the German jurist Carl Schmitt. In the essay, I explore the ways that Hindutva ideology invokes political–theological concepts to construct a unitary ‘Hindu’ identity that is conceived not only in religious terms, but in racial and civilizational terms as well. I draw upon Schmitt’s conception of political theology, as well as the work of scholars such as Anustup Basu who have characterized Hindutva as a form of. Read the canonical Outcome page for the complete entry.

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