HINDUTVA AND THE RISE OF THE CONTEMPORARY HINDU NATIONALISM (WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ISLAMIC THOUGHTS AND MUSLIM OF INDIA)

Abstract

Muslims and Hindus are living with each other for hundreds of years. During this time many kinds of historical, political, cultural and religious conflicts occurred. The impact and the consequences of these conflicts are very much. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Hindu traditions have been followed and understood in new ways. Many changes took place in Hinduism and it faced many challenges in different aspects .These changes were of political as well as well as cultural and traditional. Many reforms took place in these periods. In result, a particular crystallization of Hinduism-based Ideology occurred.