rastrawadi

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A form of rashtravadi — A nationalist, especially a Hindutvist or supporter of Hindutva.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounrastrawadi (plural rastrawadis)

plural rastrawadis

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of rashtravadi.

    The government behaves like Hindu rastrawadis.

    1987, The Illustrated Weekly of India: Volume 108, Issues 1-26, India: Published for the proprietors, Bennett, Coleman & Company, Limited, at the Times of India Press, page 63
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    The “Hindu Rastra” philosophy is nothing but the borrowed vision of German Nazism under the hegemony of “Hindu Rastrawadis”.

    1996, Manohar Chandra Prasad, Broken God, Broken People: Plight of Dalit Christians, Bangalore: Rachana Publications, →OCLC, page 3

    The xenophobes in media with the likes of Arnab Goswami are busy in making Yasin Mallik a hardliner while painting the saffron rastrawadis as bunch of bleeding heart nationalists is only aggravating alienation in Kashmir.

    2011 January 25, Shivam Vij, “‘As followers pushed to get close, the pole broke in several places and the flag tumbled down onto Mr. Joshi’”, in KAFILA – COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006
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