Tracking the saffron tiger
February 17, 2021
New meanings: Under Uddhav Thackeray, the Shiv Sena is trying to counter BJP’s Hindutva with another version of the same ideology - PTI
New meanings: Under Uddhav Thackeray, the Shiv Sena is trying to counter BJP’s Hindutva with another version of the same ideology - PTI×
A new book maps Uddhav Thackeray’s rise in family and politics, and his efforts to curate a different brand of Hindutva Balasaheb Thackeray in one of his interviews said that he had told Narendra Modi “I am the tiger, you are the lion” Uddhav Thackeray’s decision to break away from the 30-year-old alliance with the BJP in Maharashtra was not an impromptu one
Bal Thackeray s birth anniversary will be celebrated in government offices on January 23. Bal Thackeray
New Delhi: The Maharashtra government on Thursday included the names of Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray and his father Keshav Sitaram Thackeray in the list of eminent personalities whose birth anniversaries are commemorated in government offices.
The General Administration Department (GAD) issued a Government Resolution (order) containing a revised list with addition of four names on Thursday.
Accordingly, Bal Thackeray s birth anniversary will be celebrated in government offices on January 23.
The GAD portfolio is, incidentally, held by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, the late Sena chief s son, who heads a coalition government of the Sena, NCP and Congress.
How Prabodhankar Thackeray contributed to the rise of Hindutva in 20th-century Maharashtra
He presented a version of Hindutva based on an intense aversion for the socio-cultural dominance of Brahmins. Keshav Sitaram Prabodhankar Thackeray.
Keshav Sitaram Thackeray, the father of Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray, was among the prominent figures in the Samyukta Maharashtra movement in the 195
s that pushed for the formation of the state of Maharashtra. But he had already emerged as an influential public figure three decades before, especially after he started a periodical called
Prabodhan (Awakening) in 1921.
This year marks the centenary year of this magazine, which played a crucial role in shaping the world of non-Brahmin Marathi writing between the two world wars. In the 19th-century, public discouse in Marathi was dominated by Brahmins. Early in the next century, the emergence of Thackeray and a few other non-Brahmin voices helped reshape the idea of the “public