National Hindu Students' Forum Explained

National Hindu Students' Forum (UK)
Abbreviation:NHSF (UK)
Founded:1991
Region Served:UK
Website:NHSF (UK)

The National Hindu Students' Forum (NHSF (UK)) is a network of Hindu societies operating on university and further education campuses in the United Kingdom. The NHSF (UK) was started in 1991 by young British Hindus, and has chapters on many university campuses around the United Kingdom.[1] The NHSF has been described by historian Edward Anderson as having ties to the Sangh Parivar, a group of Hindu nationalist organisations in India such as the RSS and the BJP.[2] [3] [4] In early years the NHSF had the same address as the HSS, a UK charity, per Manoj Ladwa, the then HSS spokesman.[5] [6] Ladwa later served as a senior advisor to Narendra Modi during his successful Indian election campaign of 2014.[7] Although the HSS is considered to be inspired by the RSS, a UK charity commission inquiry in 2016 found no formal links between the two.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Harold. Coward. John R.. Hinnells. Kim. Knott. Raymond Brady. Williams. The South Asian Religious Diaspora in Britain, Canada, and the United States. https://books.google.com/books?id=Zsj7MfYXSZ4C&pg=PA89. 17 February 2000. SUNY Press. 978-0-7914-4509-9. 97–98. Hinduism in Britain. 10 June 2019. 11 September 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230911161436/https://books.google.com/books?id=Zsj7MfYXSZ4C&pg=PA89. live.
  2. Anderson . Edward . 'Neo-Hindutva': the Asia House M. F. Husain campaign and the mainstreaming of Hindu nationalist rhetoric in Britain . Contemporary South Asia . 2015 . 23 . 1 . 45–66 . 10.1080/09584935.2014.1001721. 145204545 .
  3. Jaffrelot, C. and Therwath, I., 2007. The Sangh Parivar and the Hindu diaspora in the West: what kind of “long-distance nationalism”?. International political sociology, 1(3), pp.278-295.
  4. Pathak, V. (2019). Indian Diaspora and Sangh Pariwar: A Study of HSS' Role. The Signage. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2007.00018.x
  5. Kiani, M. (2004). [Review of In Bad Faith? British Charity and Hindu Extemism]. Strategic Studies, 24(2), 207–222. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45242531
  6. Kundnani, A. (2002). An Unholy Alliance? Racism, Religion and Communalism. Race & Class, 44(2), 71–80. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396802044002976
  7. Ullekh, N. P. (2015). War room: The people, tactics and technology behind Narendra Modi's 2014 win. Roli Books Private Limited.https://books.google.com/books?id=lWVABgAAQBAJ&q=ladwa&pg=PT6
  8. Web site: Charity Commission report landing page . 23 March 2023 . 21 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220921225627/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hindu-swayamsevak-sangh-uk-inquiry-report . live .

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