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This paper examines the status of religious fundamentalism in South Asia by looking at two Hindu and two Muslim groups – Arya Samaj; Rashtriya Svaymsevak Sangh (or the RSS); Jamaat-i-Islam; and Tablighi Jamaat – and the impact they’ve had on social and political processes in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The text’s author ultimately concludes that the origins of these “new forms of traditionalism” lie in the challenges posed by modernity, political and cultural subordination, nationalism and colonialism.