Interpreting Kancha Ilaiah's Buffalo Nationalism

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to understand the discourse of Buffalo Nationalism, as instituted by a very noted Dalit-bahujan activist Kancha Ilaiah who equates Hinduism with spiritual fascism. This requires an in-depth study of his book Buffalo Nationalism: A Critique of Spiritual Fascism wherein through an analogue of his articles published in various newspapers and journals, I have attempted to analyze his views on the situation of Dalits in India and how a change could be brought into the same.