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VHP's version of Hinduism is seen as unappealing
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India Abroad
09-04-1998
VHP's version of Hinduism is seen as unappealing
The success of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allied organizations such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal represents a serious threat to the very Hinduism they claim to defend.
The VHP, in particular, has attempted to produce a version of Hinduism that is an unappealing and dangerous caricature of the tradition it says it represents.
A perusal of the material it disseminates (or its Website) makes its distortions of Hinduism apparent. What the VHP ...
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