Hindutvaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Transliteration of Hindi हिंदुत्व (hindutva) / Bengali হিন্দুত্ব (hindutto, literally “Hinduness”). Coined by Chandranath Basu in 1892 and appropriated by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /hɪnˈdʊtvə/
• (General American) IPA: /hinˈdətvə/, /hɪnˈdətvə/

固有名詞

Hindutva

1. (colloquial) Hindudom.
2. (colloquial) Hindu Rashtra.
3. The state or quality of being Hindu [from 20th c.]
4. The ideology of Hindu nationalism.
   • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 284:

     In India, too, people now wish to bring that argument to a close: to replace the ruckus of politics with the moralized ideology of Hindutva.

   • 2022 March 30, Ross Douthat, “Yes, There Is a Clash of Civilizations”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     China’s one-party meritocracy, Putin’s uncrowned czardom, the post-Arab Spring triumph of dictatorship and monarchy over religious populism in the Middle East, the Hindutva populism transforming Indian democracy — these aren’t just all indistinguishable forms of “autocracy,” but culturally distinctive developments that fit well with Huntington’s typology […]

派生語

• H-pop

関連する語

• Hindutvavadi
• Hinduness

参考

• saffronization
• Hindudom
• Hindu Rashtra
• bhagwa, chaddi, sanghi, bhakt, nationalist, rashtravadi, (terms for Hindutva supporters, often used derogatorily & pejoratively)
• swayamsevak (a member of RSS, a Hindutva paramilitary organisation)

名詞

Hindutva (plural Hindutvas)

1. (informal) A member of a Hindutva group or a supporter of Hindutva.