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Hindutva

UK/hɪnˈdʊtvə//hinˈdətvə/

Hindutva proper noun: hindudom.

Proper noun

Hindutva

  1. (colloquial) Hindudom.
  2. (colloquial) Hindu Rashtra.
  3. The state or quality of being Hindu
  4. The ideology of Hindu nationalism.
    • In India, too, people now wish to bring that argument to a close: to replace the ruckus of politics with the moralized ideology of Hindutva.2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 284
    • China’s one-party meritocracy, Putin’s uncrowned czardom, the post-Arab Spring triumph of dictatorship and monarchy over religious populism in the Middle East, the Hindutva populism transforming Indian democracy — these aren’t just all indistinguishable forms of “autocracy,” but culturally...2022 March 30, Ross Douthat, “Yes, There Is a Clash of Civilizations”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Noun

Hindutva (plural Hindutvas)

  1. (informal) A member of a Hindutva group or a supporter of Hindutva.

Hindutva meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Gujarati

Hindutva in Hindi

Translations
हिंदुत्व hindutva

Hindutva in Urdu

Translations
ہِنْدُوتوا hindūtvā

Hindutva in Bengali

Translations
হিন্দুত্ব hindutto

Hindutva in Gujarati

Translations
હિંદુત્વ hindutva

Forms of Hindutva

pluralHindutvas

Origin of Hindutva

Transliteration of Hindi हिंदुत्व (hindutva) / Bengali হিন্দুত্ব (hindutto, literally “Hinduness”). Coined by Chandranath Basu in 1892 and appropriated by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

Words formed from Hindutva

Questions about Hindutva

What does Hindutva mean?
Hindutva means hindudom.
What is Hindutva in Hindi?
Hindutva in Hindi is हिंदुत्व (hindutva). See Hindutva meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Hindutva?
Hindutva can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Hindutva?
Hindutva is pronounced /hɪnˈdʊtvə/ (UK).

Words near Hindutva in the dictionary

  1. Hindustanee
  2. Hindustanees
  3. Hindustanes
  4. Hindustani
  5. Hindustanis
  6. Hindutva
  7. Hindutvas
  8. Hindutvavadi
  9. Hindutvavadis
  10. Hindutvist
  11. Hindutvists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hindutva (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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