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