hindu nationalism:
Now, as is well-known, right-wing fundamentalists the world over have always sought to identify free female sexual choice as the one indubitable source of “immorality.” The literature here is copious. Hindu “cultural nationalists” are of a piece here, although, arguably, the history even of svarna Hindu thought provides some more emancipatory traditions as well, until women began to become the political focus of a regimentation directed ostensibly against the “invaders”—mughal, afghan, or colonial-christian—but ploughed to cement a male-militarist majoritarian future. Note that the constitution of the RSS which came into coerced existence as late as 1949 offers memberships only to the male of the species. Borrowing explicitly from both Italian fascism and Nazi racism, the RSS has held that women are best obliged to bear and rear the species, and to mind the hearth and the home.