Abstract The Indian prime minister’s clarion call for a ‘Swachh Bharat’ or ‘transparent India’ officially seeks to cleanse the image of a ‘squatting’ nation through building ‘toilets first, temples later’ (‘Devalaya Se Pehle Shauchalaya’)—a laudable slogan that sounds bizarre when heard from the member of a nationalist ‘Hindutvavadi’ political group that usually prioritises hardcore religious sentiments over civic issues. Keeping in mind the traditional Hindu discourse of ritual pollution, it is hard to believe that the Hindu mindset could bear the juxtaposition of the two sites within the space of one single sentence without considering the act as straightforward blasphemy! This article seeks to understand how—and under what sort of social circumstances—this kind of ideational somersault is being attempted today. This ingenious move is polysemic too, we argue, as the virtues of transparency and cleanliness could be rhetorically employed for a variety of purposes. We would examine whether a finer version of Hindutva is on its way to replace a cruder one by enfolding a series of tropes—from Shauchalaya to Mahatma Gandhi—that have never been within its order so far!

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对印度教末世论进行分类：从德瓦拉亚到绍查拉亚的（在）吉祥之旅

摘要 印度总理呼吁建立“Swachh Bharat”或“透明的印度”，正式寻求通过“先建厕所，后建庙”（“Devalaya Se Pehle Shauchalaya”）来净化“蹲”国家的形象——值得称道。从民族主义“印度教”政治团体的成员那里听到的口号听起来很奇怪，该团体通常将核心宗教情感置于公民问题之上。记住传统的印度教关于仪式污染的话语，很难相信印度教的心态可以在一个句子的空间内承受两个地点的并列，而不认为这种行为是直接的亵渎！本文旨在了解当今如何以及在何种社会环境下尝试这种观念性的翻筋斗。我们认为，这种巧妙的举措也是多义的，因为透明和清洁的优点可以在修辞上用于各种目的。我们将检查一个更精细的印度教版本是否正在通过包含一系列的比喻来取代粗糙的印度教——从 Shauchalaya 到圣雄甘地——这些比喻迄今为止从未在它的范围内！