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saffronisation

saffronisation is the alternative form of saffronization.

Meaning of saffronization

Noun

saffronization (uncountable)

  1. (India, derogatory) The politics of right-wing Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) that seek to make the Indian state adopt policies that recall and glorify Hindu cultural history and heritage of India at the expense of other religious traditions.
    • Given the 'saffronization' of Congress, the 'ethnoreligious purification' of the BJP, and the parturition of the avowedly secular parties (CPI, SJP and BSP) […]1993, Harold Alton Gould, India votes: alliance politics and minority governments in the ninth and tenth general elections, page 308

Origin of saffronisation

From saffron + -isation.

Questions about saffronisation

What is saffronisation the alternative form of?
Saffronisation is the alternative form of saffronization.

Words near saffronisation in the dictionary

  1. saffron thistle
  2. Saffron Walden
  3. saffron yellow
  4. saffroned
  5. saffroning
  6. saffronisation
  7. saffronization
  8. saffronize
  9. saffronized
  10. saffronizes
  11. saffronizing

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