Sangh Parivar

{{Blockquote|text=What I am suggesting is that in its staging of spectacles, in its techniques of mobilisations, in the multiplicity of its fronts, in the shadowy traffic between its parliamentary and non-parliamentary organs, in the seamless interplay of form and content in its ideological interpellations, in the connection it asserts between a resurgent national tradition and the regaining of masculinist virility, in its simultaneous claims to legality and extra-legality, in its construction of a mythic history which authorises it to be above history, and in its organisation of a ''dharm sansad'' that authorises it to be above the civil parliament whenever it so chooses, the Sangh Parivar is a classically fascist force with large Indian twists of course, as every fascism must always take a specifically national form.|author=[[Aijaz Ahmad]]{{Sfn|Desai|Pandey|Kapila|Desai|2016|pages=57}}}}

{{Blockquote|text=What I am suggesting is that in its staging of spectacles, in its techniques of mobilisations, in the multiplicity of its fronts, in the shadowy traffic between its parliamentary and non-parliamentary organs, in the seamless interplay of form and content in its ideological interpellations, in the connection it asserts between a resurgent national tradition and the regaining of masculinist virility, in its simultaneous claims to legality and extra-legality, in its construction of a mythic history which authorises it to be above history, and in its organisation of a ''dharm sansad'' that authorises it to be above the civil parliament whenever it so chooses, the Sangh Parivar is a classically fascist force with large Indian twists of course, as every fascism must always take a specifically national form.|author=[[Aijaz Ahmad]]{{Sfn|Desai|Pandey|Kapila|Desai|2016|pages=57}}}}

Whereas fascism rose to power in [[Fascist Italy|Italy]] and [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] within roughly a decade of its emergence, Hindutva, under the Sangh Parivar, followed a far longer period of gestation. Since the 1950s, its network of organisations has focused on [[Indoctrination|ideological indoctrination]] and the circulation of ideas through popular culture, which Sarkar compares to philosopher [[Antonio Gramsci]]'s theory of the "[[war of position]]", with the aim of ultimately creating a "''Hindu Rashtra''" ({{Literal translation|Hindu Nation}}). The growth of the Sangh Parivar has been driven by a combination of [[Riot|street violence]], infiltration of the police, and collusion with [[Centrism|centrist]] political and judicial leaders.{{Sfn|Sarkar|1993|pages=163–165}}

Whereas fascism rose to power in [[Fascist Italy|Italy]] and [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] within roughly a decade of its emergence, [[Hindutva]], under the Sangh Parivar, followed a far longer period of gestation. Since the 1950s, its network of organisations has focused on [[Indoctrination|ideological indoctrination]] and the circulation of ideas through popular culture, which Sarkar compares to philosopher [[Antonio Gramsci]]'s theory of the "[[war of position]]", with the aim of ultimately creating a "''Hindu Rashtra''" ({{Literal translation|Hindu Nation}}). The growth of the Sangh Parivar has been driven by a combination of [[Riot|street violence]], infiltration of the police, and collusion with [[Centrism|centrist]] political and judicial leaders.{{Sfn|Sarkar|1993|pages=163–165}}

== List of organisations ==

== List of organisations ==