What position in the Janata Party did the man who inaugurated Academic Hinduphobia hold?
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Academic Hinduphobia Academic Hinduphobia: A Critique of Wendy Doniger's Erotic School of Indology is a 2016 collection of essays written and published in the early 2000s by Rajiv Malhotra "critiquing Western Indology and discussing a wide range of challenges confronting Hinduism, India and the world," published by Voice of India. The book was inaugurated by Dr. Subramanian Swamy at an event at India International Centre at New Delhi on 10 July 2016.
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Subramanian Swamy Subramanian Swamy (born 15 September 1939) is an Indian economist, mathematician and politician who serves as a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He was the President of the Janata Party until it merged with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Swamy has served as a member of the Planning Commission of India and was a Cabinet Minister in the Chandra Shekhar government. Earlier in November 1978, Swamy was member of the Group of Eminent persons and was called to Geneva, Switzerland to prepare a report of the United Nations (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)) on Economic Co-operation between Developing countries (ECDC). Swamy also simplified trade procedures and formulated a new export strategy which became the forerunner of trade reform adopted subsequently. In 1994, Swamy was appointed as Chairman of the Commission on Labour Standards and International Trade by former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao.
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O. Rajagopal Dr. O Rajagopal (born 15 September 1929) is an Indian politician, former Union Minister of State and currently a MLA in Legislative Assembly of Kerala state. One of the major leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Kerala, he has held various ministerial portfolios like Defence, Parliamentary Affairs, Urban Development, Law, Justice, Company Affairs, and Railways, in the past. Rajagopal represented Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh (1992–2004). He became the first BJP candidate to win an assembly seat in Kerala when he won in 2016 Kerala assembly election from Nemom seat. He is also the first BJP parliamentary party leader of the state of Kerala.
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Laxminarayan Sharma Laxminarayan Sharma (5 September 1933 – 17 October 2008) was an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party and was a member of the Parliament of India representing Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
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Sambhajirao Kakade Sambhajirao Sahebrao Kakade (born 8 September 1931) is an Indian politician who was elected from Baramati to the 6th and 8th Lok Sabha as a member of the Janata Party.
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Vishnu Gupta Vishnu Gupta (born 10 August 1984) is an Indian right-wing Hindu nationalist from Sakit, Uttar Pradesh. He is the founder and president of the Hindu Sena. Among the Hindu Sena's activities were campaigning for Donald Trump in the U.S. Presidential election of 2016, allegedly vandalising the regional office of Pakistan International Airlines in New Delhi, attacking the office of the Aam Admi Party, and protesting the "anti-national" news coverage of "The Indian Express". On 25th December 2015 Gupta was arrested, two days after a PCR call by him alleging that beef was being served in the restaurant at Kerala House. The police stated they were contemplating action against Gupta under Section 182 of the Indian Penal Code (false information, with intent to cause public servant to use his lawful power to the injury of another person).
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Ambedkar Samaj Party Ambedkar Samaj Party (Ambedkar Society Party) is a political party in India, that fights for the rights of Dalits. The party is opposed to Hindu nationalism, which it sees as representing an upper caste minority. ASP claims that Bahujan Samaj Party has betrayed dalits through its alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party. The leader of ASP is Tej Singh.
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V. Dhananjay Kumar Venur Dhananjay Kumar is a former Union minister of India and a former Member of Parliament from Mangalore.Being a staunch loyalist of former Chief Minister of Karnataka B. S. Yeddyurappa, he was elected as the president of the new Karnataka Janata Party after he was expelled from the Bharatiya Janta Party and from the post of the Special representative of the Government of Karnataka to the Union Government in New Delhi. Dhananjay Kumar officially joined the Janata Dal (Secular) on 16 March 2014.Dhananjay kumar officially joined congress on august 3rd 2017 after JDS.
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Saffronisation Saffronisation or Saffronization is an Indian political neologism (named after the saffron robes worn by Hindu sannyasis) used by critics and others to refer to the policies of right-wing Hindu nationalists ("Hindutva") that seek to recall and glorify ancient Hindu cultural history (the term "Hindu" in their view encompassing "dharmic" religions including Hinduism and the Sikh, Jain and Buddhist traditions). On the other hand, Murli Manohar Joshi, a leading member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, said "saffronisation" means to go back to the holy traditions of India.
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Bharatiya Rashtravadi Paksha The Bharatiya Rashtravadi Paksha ('Indian Nationalist Party') is a political party in Gujarat, India. The party was registered in 2003. It has its headquarters in Mehsana. The party fielded a single candidate in the 2004 Lok Sabha election, who got 11,459 votes.
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Syed Shahnawaz Hussain Syed Shahnawaz Hussain (   ) is an Indian Politician and he is the current Spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a former Cabinet Minister.
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Babubhai J. Patel Babubhai Jashbhai Patel was the chief minister of Gujarat state in India. He hold the office twice, first time from June 1975 to March 1976 as the leader of Janata Morcha and the second time from April 1977 to February 1980 as leader of Janata Party.
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Gopal Prasad Sinha Gopal Prasad Sinha is an Indian neurologist, politician and a member of the Institutional Ethical Committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research. He was born and brought up in Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar and is an alumnus of Patna University. He unsuccessfully contested in 2014 Indian Parliament elections from the Patna Sahib constituency under the Janata Dal (United) candidacy, against the incumbent Member of Parliament, Shatrughan Sinha.
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Mandal Commission The Mandal Commission was established in India in 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai with a mandate to "identify the socially or educationally backward." It was headed by Indian parliamentarian B.P. Mandal to consider the question of seat reservations and quotas for people to redress caste discrimination, and used eleven social, economic, and educational indicators to determine backwardness. In 1980, the commission's report affirmed the affirmative action practice under Indian law whereby members of Other Backward Classes (OBC), were given exclusive access to a certain portion of government Jobs and slots in public universities, and recommended changes to these quotas, by 27% Mobilization on caste lines had followed the political empowerment of ordinary citizens by the constitution of free India that allowed common people to politically assert themselves through the right to vote.
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Y. G. Mahajan Y. G. Mahajan (born 12 May 1941) is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party.
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Janata Party (Secular) The Janata Party (Secular) (Hindi: ) was an Indian political party founded by Raj Narain in July, 1979. On 16 July 1979 Charan Singh assumed its leadership and became the Prime Minister of India on 28 July 1979 with the support of the Indian National Congress (O) but resigned on 20 August 1979 after their withdrawal of support. The Janata Party led by Charan Singh was later renamed as Lok Dal before the Indian general election, 1980 but officially contested in the elections under its previous name. In the elections for the 7th Lok Sabha in 1980, the party won 41 seats and received 9.39% of the total votes polled.
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Vikram Verma Vikram Verma (born 23 January 1944) is a political leader of Bharatiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh, India.
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2014 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence On 5 January 2014, the 10th general elections were held in Bangladesh. The Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami had already boycotted the elections. The buildup to the elections were marred by successive strikes and violence by the Opposition parties. After the polls, workers and supporters of the Opposition parties began attacking the minority Bengali Hindus. They raped, looted, vandalised and set the Hindu houses on fire in several districts across the country. Seven persons belonging to the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party were arrested in connection with the attacks. The National Human Rights Commission held the government responsible for the attacks on Hindus after the election. In India, the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has condemned the attacks on minorities.
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Prasanna Kumar Patasani Prasanna Kumar Patasani (Odia: ପ୍ରସନ୍ନ କୁମାର ପାଟ୍ଟଶାଣୀ )(born 27 April 1946) is a Lawyer, Philosopher, Poet, and Member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Bhubaneswar constituency of Odisha and is the Vice President and Founder Member of the Biju Janata Dal.
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R. K. Singh Raj Kumar Singh is a former Indian bureaucrat and the current Minister of State in the Government of India. He is Member of the Indian Parliament since May 2014. Singh is a 1975 batch Bihar cadre Indian Administrative Service officer and former Home Secretary of India. On 30 October 1990, when district magistrate of Samastipur, he arrested L. K. Advani, a senior figure in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while Advani's Ram Rath Yatra was en route to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh from Somnath in Gujarat. The arrest was made by order of the Lalu Prasad Yadav government.
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Kapil Kapoor Dr. Kapil Kapoor, (born 17 November 1940) is an Indian scholar of linguistics and literature and an authority on Indian intellectual traditions. He is former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and served as professor at the Centre for Linguistics and English, and Concurrent Professor at the Centre for Sanskrit Studies there before retiring in 2005. He is Editor-in-Chief of the 11-Volume "Encyclopedia of Hinduism" published by Rupa & Co. in 2012.
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P. Parameswaran P. Parameshwaran (often referred to as Parameswarji) is a Hindutva thinker in Kerala and an orator. He is the director of Bharatiya Vichara Kendra and the president of Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari. He is also one of the founder members of the International Forum for India's Heritage (IFIH). He is considered as the seniormost Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak and ideologue in Kerala.