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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, [bʱaːɾətiːjə dʒənətaː paːɾʈiː] ⓘ; lit. ' Indian People's Party ') is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. [36]
With a reference of the book, The Rahnuma Daily, Indian newspaper, wrote that book looks like "honest attempt of the author" to documentise the history and contemporary politics of the BJP. [6] The book is included in the curriculum of undergraduate students studying South Asian Studies at Islamic University of Indonesia .
The Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh (abbreviated as BJS or JS, short name: Jan Sangh, [10] was an Indian nationalist political party. This party was established on 21 October 1951 in Delhi, and existed until 1977. Its three founding members were Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Balraj Madhok and Deendayal Upadhyaya.
Integral humanism was a set of concepts drafted by Deendayal Upadhyaya as a political program and adopted in 1965 as the official doctrine of the Jan Sangh and later BJP. [1] The doctrine is also interpreted as ' Universal Brotherhood ', an earlier theosophist and inturn Freemason inspired phenomenon.
However, BJP originated more as a successor to the Janata Party and did not return to the beginning stages of the Hindu nationalist identity and Jana Sangh doctrines. The RSS resented this dilution of ideology – the new slogans promoted by the then BJP president Vajpayee like 'Gandhian socialism' and 'positive secularism'.
The party is considered to be a cadre-based party that draws from the Hindutva-based ideology of its parent organisation, the RSS. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As of 2019 [update] , it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament and state assemblies and is the world's largest party in terms of primary membership .
The Hindutva ideology according to Savarkar, states Ram-Prasad, is a "geography, race, and culture" based concept. However, the "geography" is not strictly territorial but is an "ancestral homeland of a people", and the "race" is not biogenetic but described as the historic descendants of the intermarriage of Aryans, native inhabitants and ...
According to Jaffrelot, the rising to power of BJP led to the return of upper castes in urban politics with nearly 45% of the BJP Member of Parliament belonging to the upper-caste, a consequence of this over-representation was the disproportionate ticket distribution plan of the BJP. The return of the upper castes to politics also revived some ...