Uday Mahurkar

Uday Mahurkar
Uday in 2018
Born Uday Mahurkar
28 September 1962
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Nationality Indian
Occupation Writer
Years active 1983 – present
Known for Unalloyed nationalism

Uday Mahurkar (born 28 September 1962) is an Indian journalist, political analyst and author. He is a deputy editor at the India Today group.[1][2] He is expert in Indian history with reference to Mughal, Rajput, Maratha and British periods as well as the Governance model of Narendra Modi Government, the role of radical Islamic movements in South Asia, and Veer Savarkar’s nationalism.

Early life

Mahurkar was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. His family moved to Gujarat after independence. He had his education in at Vadodara, a former Maratha Princely State. He graduated in Indian history Culture and Archaeology from Maharaja Sayajirao University in 1983 and joined The Indian Express in the same year as a sub-editor at Ahmedabad.

In 2017, Mahurkar authored the book Marching with a Billion about the model of Narendra Modi's governance as Prime Minister.[3][4][5] The book’s foreword is written by economist Professor Klaus Schwab, founder and architect of the World Economic Forum.

Views

He also exposed Asaram Bapu.[6] He holds the views that "It is wrong to set Rana Pratap against Akbar as it will be harmful for national unity. Moderate muslims in India need a role model and that role model is the Akbar". He is also known for his belief in undistorted history. He draws inspiration from two great medieval heroes, Maharana Pratap and Chattrapati Shivaji, who fought against Muslim tyranny. He also regards Mughal emperor Akbar as a symbol of syncretic culture despite Akbar’s fight with Maharana Pratap.[7]

He believes that moderate Muslims in India should have ideal medieval role models and Akbar is certainly one of them as he put a stop to the religious atrocities committed on Hindus of India over 350 years before his arrival.

Veer Savarkar and RSS

Veer Savarkar and Hindutva is one of his area of expertise. ‘He uses the term unalloyed nationalism[8] for Veer Savarkar's book ‘ Hindutva’. The book inspired the Hindu nationalist movement represented by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the parent body of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party. Mahurkar has crafted a new narrative on Savarkar which opposes the view that Savarkar’s  Hindutva was loaded against Muslims and Christians. By marshalling powerful evidence Mahurkar instead establishes that Savarkar’s Hindutva was basically unalloyed nationalism in which there was place for all religions but no place for religious appeasement in the name of equality. He has established that Savarkar’s Hindutva was a Hindu protective view to guard Hindu religion and community from the radical elements of proselytizing religions and not a Hindu supremacist view. In the process he has also acquired expertise on RSS and its functioning and world vision. Mahurkar’s new narrative on Savarkar can be read in the form of articles on DailyO.


Radical Islamic Movements

Mahurkar is also an expert on radical Islamic / Wahabi movements. He has published a series of articles on the subject on India Today Group’s digital platform called DailyO.  His expertise is on the nature of various Islamic movements, from moderate to semi-radical to radical, whose history he has studied in great detail. He has coined the word ‘ Ultra-Wahabism’ to distinguish the radicals Wahabis from the moderate ones.

He brought to light a radical book titled ‘ Taqwiat- ul –Iman’[9] , written by a radical Indian Muslim preacher in 1820s. The book is taught in all the Wahabi Madrassas ( religious schools of Deoband and Ahle Hadis tanzeems which are known as Indian Wahabis ) ) across South Asia and even in the Western and Middle East countries. The books preaches destruction of syncretic culture sybolised by the term ‘ Ganga-Jumna Tehzib’ by preaching hatred to Muslim students against practices of non-Islamic religions.

Books

  1. Marching with a Billion Published by Penguin Random House India [10][11][12][13]
  2. Centrestage Published by Random House India[14][15]

References

  1. ↑ "Uday Mahurkar". www.dailyo.in. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Uday Mahurkar News, Videos, Photos and Magazine Stories". IndiaToday. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Modi Government Is Laying The Foundation For A New India: Uday Mahurkar". Swarajya. Swarajya.
  4. ↑ "Marching with a Billion: Analysing Narendra Modi's Government at ..." Free Press Journal. Free Press Journal. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  5. ↑ Penguin India (31 May 2017), Uday Mahurkar's Marching With A Billion, retrieved 19 August 2018
  6. ↑ Rajdeep In Conversation With Uday Mahurkar Who Exposed Asaram Bapu, India Today, 25 April 2018, retrieved 19 August 2018
  7. ↑ "Pitting Rana Pratap against Akbar is harmful for national unity". Dailyo.in. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  8. ↑ "Uday Mahurkar on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  9. ↑ Shaykh Shah Ismail Shaheed (r.a). TAQWIYAT UL IMAN.
  10. ↑ "New book on PM Narendra Modi, Marching with a Billion released". The Financial Express. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "New book analyses three years of Modi government". Business Standard. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  12. ↑ Schwab, Uday Mahurkar ; foreword by Klaus. Marching with a billion : analysing Narendra Modi's government at midterm. Gurgaon, Haryana, India. ISBN 9780670089208. OCLC 989811564.
  13. ↑ "Book Launch: Uday Mahurkar's 'Marching With A Billion' – Analysing Modi Government At Midterm". Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  14. ↑ "Centrestage by Uday Mahurkar: Book Review". Moneylife. 14 May 2014.
  15. ↑ Uday, Mahurkar. Centrestage : inside the Narendra Modi model of governance. Gurgaon. ISBN 9788184005141. OCLC 881605199.
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