Les Shiv Sena(s). Des bureaux de chômage au national-hindouisme ? Réflexions à partir d'une étude de cas au Madhya Pradesh en 1991

The Shiv Senas from unemployment offices to national-Hinduism. The second human group of the planet the Indian Federation has been shaken for decade by wave of militant Hinduism that does not easily fit in whith the usual framework of integrisms and fundamentalisms. This national-Hinduism was born more than century ago Currently it assumes shifting forms and new proportions. Past organizations addressed culture, nation and politics, elaborating programs, rituals and complex structures. Current organizations, born in the 1960s address unemploy ment and scarcely theorize. The present article attemps to define these new organizations from the results of case study carried out, in 1991, in small city of the Madhya Pradesh center of India It seeks to shed light on the relations between their practices and social problems particularly unemployment by showing how they meet the aspirations of certain young people and simplify the world while enhancing the values of people on the fringe.
Heuzé Gérard. Les Shiv Sena(s). Des bureaux de chômage au national-hindouisme ? Réflexions à partir d'une étude de cas au Madhya Pradesh en 1991. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 47ᵉ année, N. 4-5, 1992. pp. 841-864.