Definition of "Hindutva"

In India, too, people now wish to bring that argument to a close: to replace the ruckus of politics with the moralized ideology of Hindutva.

2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 284

China’s one-party meritocracy, Putin’s uncrowned czardom, the post-Arab Spring triumph of dictatorship and monarchy over religious populism in the Middle East, the Hindutva populism transforming Indian democracy — these aren’t just all indistinguishable forms of “autocracy,” but culturally distinctive developments that fit well with Huntington’s typology […]

2022 March 30, Ross Douthat, “Yes, There Is a Clash of Civilizations”, in The New York Times‎