An unholy alliance? Racism, religion and communalism

Race and Class

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 71-80

  Kundnani, Arun ^a  

^a Institute of Race Relations   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0036389907     PISSN: 03063968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306396802044002976     Document Type: Review

References (8)

1. See Joydeep Ray, 'VHP's hand in Gujarat's weapons of murder', Indian Express (10 April 2002). In India, there have been repeated questions about the funding of the VHP, which, like its UK and US branches, claims charitable status. Large sums of money that ought to be helping the poor, rather than promoting the interests of any particular religious community, are unaccounted for. Under India's secular laws, even constructing a temple cannot be considered a charitable activity. Much of this funding comes from abroad, often from Hindus who believe the money is being used for genuine purposes. Given the relative wealth of many Hindus in the US IT industry, some estimate the sums involved to be as large as tens of millions of dollars per year. Although the VHP claims not to receive foreign donations, it has held conferences in New York, Copenhagen, Netherlands and Singapore, as well as Milton Keynes, and has conducted fundraising tours of the US. One such tour in 1999 had a target of raising $400,000 (Murali Krishnan, The VHP's long tax holiday', Outlook India (22 March 1999)).
2. Arundhati Roy, 'Democracy: who is she when she's at home?'. Outlook India (28 April 2002).
3. See Nick Lowles, 'Sleeping with the enemy', Searchlight (February 2002).
4. Interview with Rajinder Singh, Identity (February/March 2002).
5. Hugo Young, 'A corrosive national danger in our multicultural model', Guardian (6 November 2001).
6. Gujarat Carnage 2002: a report to the nation, an independent fact-finding mission by Dr Kamal Mitra Chenoy, S. P. Shukla, K. S. Subramanian, Achin Vanaik (2002).
7. Sunil Khilnani, This is the home of Gandhi', Globe and Mail (20 March 2002).
8. See Parita Mukta and Chetan Bhatt (eds), 'Hindutva movements in the West: resurgent Hinduism and the politics of diaspora", Ethnic and Racial Studies (Vol. 23, no. 3, May 2000).