National Hindu Students' Forum

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National Hindu Students' Forum (UK)
AbbreviationNHSF (UK)
Founded1991
Region served
UK
WebsiteNHSF (UK)

The National Hindu Students' Forum (NHSF (UK)) is a network of Hindu societies operating on university and further education campuses in the United Kingdom. The NHSF (UK) was started in 1991 from a stall at a Hindu marathon, but now operates in around 50 different institutions around the United Kingdom.[1] The NHSF has been described by historian Edward Anderson as having ties to the Sangh Parivar, a group of Hindu nationalist organisations in India such as the RSS and the BJP.[2][3][4] In early years the NHSF had the same address as the HSS, a UK charity, per Manoj Ladwa, the then HSS spokesman.[5][6] Ladwa later served as a senior advisor to Narendra Modi during his successful Indian election campaign of 2014.[7] Although the HSS is considered to be inspired by the RSS, a UK charity commission inquiry in 2016 found no formal links between the two.[8]

References

  1. ^ Knott, Kim (17 February 2000). "Hinduism in Britain". In Coward, Harold; Hinnells, John R.; Williams, Raymond Brady (eds.). The South Asian Religious Diaspora in Britain, Canada, and the United States. SUNY Press. pp. 97–98. ISBN 978-0-7914-4509-9. Archived from the original on 11 September 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  2. ^ Anderson, Edward (2015). "'Neo-Hindutva': the Asia House M. F. Husain campaign and the mainstreaming of Hindu nationalist rhetoric in Britain". Contemporary South Asia. 23 (1): 45–66. doi:10.1080/09584935.2014.1001721. S2CID 145204545.
  3. ^ Jaffrelot, C. and Therwath, I., 2007. The Sangh Parivar and the Hindu diaspora in the West: what kind of “long-distance nationalism”?. International political sociology, 1(3), pp.278-295.
  4. ^ Pathak, V. (2019). Indian Diaspora and Sangh Pariwar: A Study of HSS' Role. The Signage. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2007.00018.x Archived 2023-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Kiani, M. (2004). [Review of In Bad Faith? British Charity and Hindu Extemism]. Strategic Studies, 24(2), 207–222. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45242531 Archived 2022-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Kundnani, A. (2002). An Unholy Alliance? Racism, Religion and Communalism. Race & Class, 44(2), 71–80. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396802044002976 Archived 2023-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Ullekh, N. P. (2015). War room: The people, tactics and technology behind Narendra Modi's 2014 win. Roli Books Private Limited.[1] Archived 2023-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Charity Commission report landing page". Archived from the original on 2022-09-21. Retrieved 2023-03-23.

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