rastrawadi

English

Noun

rastrawadi (plural rastrawadis)

1. Alternative spelling of rashtravadi.
   • 1987, The Illustrated Weekly of India: Volume 108, Issues 1-26‎^[1], India: Published for the proprietors, Bennett, Coleman & Company, Limited, at the Times of India Press, page 63:

     The government behaves like Hindu rastrawadis.

   • 1996, Manohar Chandra Prasad, Broken God, Broken People: Plight of Dalit Christians‎^[2], Bangalore: Rachana Publications, →OCLC, page 3:

     The “Hindu Rastra” philosophy is nothing but the borrowed vision of German Nazism under the hegemony of “Hindu Rastrawadis”.

   • 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^[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.