Dictionaries › English

saffronization

The English word “saffronization” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. The politics of right-wing Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) that seek to make the Indian state adopt policies that recall and glorify Hindu cultural history and heritage of India at the expense of other religious traditions.

Etymology

From saffron + -ization, after the saffron robes worn by Hindu priests and monks.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “saffronization” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.