ABSTRACT

This paper reads V.D. Savarkar’s last work, Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History, and advances two arguments concerning Hindutva international thought. Firstly, it foregrounds and theorizes an organicist conception of the international that is embedded in the text. Savarkar’s narrative contains a social evolutionary account of India’s historical international relations. Drawing upon a history of over two thousand years of warfare, they are extremely violent, visceral and mediated by caste and race. These aspects have not been adequately discussed within existing expositions, which emphasize culture and geopolitics. Secondly, the paper examines the Savarkarite framing of the “Akhand Bharat” problematic and the strategy for its resolution. Savarkar situates this post-partition problematic within a long and glorious record of the Hindus in successfully resisting their homeland’s internationalization. The resolution – the establishment of a subcontinental polity of the Hindus – gains within Savarkarite thought the legitimacy and force of a millenialist, affectively-charged history.

摘要

本文阅读 VD Savarkar 的最后一部作品《印度历史的六个辉煌时代》, 并提出了两个关于印度教国际思想的论点。首先，它突出并理论化了文本中嵌入的国际有机主义概念。Savarkar 的叙述包含了对印度历史国际关系的社会进化描述。借鉴两千多年的战争历史，他们极其暴力、发自本能并且受到种姓和种族的调解。在强调文化和地缘政治的现有展览中，这些方面尚未得到充分讨论。其次，本文考察了“Akhand Bharat”问题的 Savarkarite 框架及其解决策略。Savarkar 将这个分治后的问题置于印度教徒成功抵制其祖国国际化的长期而光荣的记录中。