ABSTRACT
A culturally and politically aggressive Hindutva can be seen as both a product of and a response to the new period of global capitalism characterized by the collapse of communism, the proliferation of general and niche consumption economies, information technology, deregulated, globalized and unevenly contiguous economies, and a global cultural hegemony centred on the West. From its inception, the Jana Sangh advocated its fundamental principle of ‘one nation, one culture, one people’, a political sentiment that continues to be strongly articulated by the contemporary Bharatiya Janata Party-led. Jana Sangh would recognise family as being the basis of production-system and would try and decentralise the system. The Jana Sangh worked with the Jammu-based Praja Parishad, the Ram Rajya Parishad and the Hindu Mahasabha in opposition to Sheikh Abdullah’s attempts to ‘constitutionally’ consolidate the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
