@article{oai:meilib.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000153, author = {Narayanan, Mundoli}, journal = {比較文化, Comparative culture,the journal of Miyazaki International College}, month = {}, note = {The paper examines the growth of Hindu communalism in India in recent years and looks specifically at the impact it has had on the popular culture of Kerala, the southern most state of India. The first section examines the fascist roots of the ‘Hindutva’ ideology and focuses on the organized attempts to consolidate the Hindu community at the national and international levels and to define the Indian nation as essentially Hindu in nature. The second section looks specifically at Kerala and at how the movement towards Hindu consolidation in the state has been less ostensibly political and more unconsciously cultural in nature. The reasons for this are traced to the unique evolution of the Kerala society that has led to the development of a general secular ethos in the social and political spheres. This operative political conscious has resulted in the formation of a communal unconscious that finds expression in the cultural sphere through various revivalist practices and discourses. The third section examines local language films that deal with revivalist themes and then proceeds to the three inter-related and recurrent patterns of Hindu revivalism --‘aestheticization of the past,’ ‘ethicalization of the past,’ and ‘validation of ancient knowledge systems’ -- and their effects on different facets of Kerala culture.}, pages = {135--150}, title = {過去への訪問--ケララ大衆文化におけるヒンズー教信仰復興運動の影響}, volume = {10}, year = {2004} }