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 from a stall at a Hindu marathon, but now operates in around 50 different institutions 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 . 2023-03-23 . 2022-09-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220921225627/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hindu-swayamsevak-sangh-uk-inquiry-report . live .

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