Subhoranjan Dasgupta

Subhoranjan Dasgupta is currently working on the book Theory and Practice of Hindutva, focusing on the time of its inception in the 1920s up to the present day. Instead of an abstruse academic text, he aims at a lucid commentary for lay readers in India, because they are the ones who will determine the future course of the country. The specific task of the book is the realization of the essential difference between Hinduism as professed by Mahatma Gandhi and Hindutva as propagated by Veer Savarkar. The reader will be made aware of the multifaceted, pluralist, vibrant nature of India as opposed to the sectarian interpretation, which attempts to confine it within the precincts of a single temple and a single ahistorical deity. Dasgupta’s fellowship in Vienna is devoted to committed research on this subject.