pan-Indianismn.
/ˌpanˈɪndɪənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌpænˈɪndiəˌnɪz(ə)m/ 1. A policy, theory, or movement uniting all the peoples or languages of India, or examples of Indian culture worldwide; Indian nationalism.In quot. 1917: the theory that all words could be traced to an ancient Indic (Sanskrit) etymon.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > politics in India and Far East > [noun] > Indian politics > principles or policies
Swadeshism1907
Swaraj1907
pan-Indianism1917
sarvodaya1919
Gandhi-ism1921
Gandhism1921
1917 Amer. Anthropologist 19 364 ‘In shamanism, so called from the Shaman or Siberian sorcerer, who is himself but a transformed çramaṇa, or Buddhist missionary priest, we rise to a higher conception of religion.’ These superstitions were tenaciously upheld under the influence of the romantic movement of pan-Indianism.
1995 India Abroad (Nexis) 22 Sept. 2 The progressive movement that was especially conspicuous in Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Telugu and Malayalam was another instance [of] a pan-Indianism in literature.
1999 K. P. Prentiss Embodiment of Bhakti 49 For most of its history, politically, India has been constituted by regions of efficacy rather than by a notion of pan-Indianism.
2001 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 95 230/1 The ‘All India’ was added to the AIDMK's name in 1976 to emphasize its acceptance of pan-Indianism.
2004 Times of India (Nexis) 2 Sept. Our score-card tells our story of success. That's why dal makhani, saag tadka, sufi music and patka are symbols of Pan-Indianism.
2. The identification of many or all of the Indian peoples of the Americas with a collective culture or system of religious beliefs; (also) solidarity or political unity among these peoples.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [noun] > other spec. > movement or ideal
cultural nationalism1914
American dream1916
pan-Indianism1945
AIM1971
1945 R. Linton Sci. of Man in World Crisis 302 That a popular movement should develop among the diversified population of Mexico sooner than among the very homogeneous Andean Indians is striking evidence of the insufficiency of common culture alone to supply a basis for pan-Indianism.
1955 J. H. Howard in Sci. Monthly Nov. 215/1 By pan-Indianism is meant the process by which sociocultural entities..are losing their tribal distinctiveness and in its place are developing a nontribal ‘Indian’ culture.
1971 H. W. Hertzberg Search for Amer. Indian Identity i. 7 Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwataya..led a movement which combined religious and political Pan-Indianism.
1995 Jrnl. Canad. Stud. 30 68 There is a solidarity, which sometimes goes under the name of ‘panIndianism’, which crosses the cultural and legal boundaries asserted by Aboriginal peoples.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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