Hindu Rashtra

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. the (idealised) administration of India under a theocratic government as a Hindu state as sought by Hindu nationalists

Word forms

Hindu Rashtra

Etymology

Compound of Hindu + Sanskrit राष्ट्र (rāṣṭra, “state, nation”); possibly an unadapted borrowing from Hindi or another Indian language.

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