12.2 The Hindu Mahasabha
The Hindu Mahasabha
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- HM leaders remained within Cong framework and tried to operate as sep pressure group to marginalise secularist, destroy any possibility of understanding w/ Muslims
- Secularists in INC compromised w/ HM on major issues making M apprehensive/ suspicious -> growing alienation of Muslims
- MM Malviya : riots in Allahabad, Lucknow in 1924
**Jaffrelot** : constant contest b/w rival concepts of nationalism, one base on idea of composite culture ie nation above community other on racial domination of Hindus