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Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies, and Modern Myths » Read Now
by Chetan Bhatt. 232 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

The rise of authoritarian Hindu mass movements and political formations in India since the early 1980s raises fundamental questions about the resurgence of chauvinistic ethnic, religious and nationalist movements in the late modern period. This book examines the history and ideologies of Hindu...
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The rise of authoritarian Hindu mass movements and political formations in India since the early 1980s raises fundamental questions about the resurgence of chauvinistic ethnic, religious and nationalist movements in the late modern period. This book examines the history and ideologies of Hindu nationalism and Hindutva from the end of the last century to the present, and critically evaluates the social and political philosophies and writings of its main thinkers.Hindu nationalism is based on the claim that it is an indigenous product of the primordial and authentic ethnic and religious traditions of India. The book argues instead that these claims are based on relatively recent ideas, frequently related to western influences during the colonial period. These influences include eighteenth and nineteenth century European Romantic and Enlightenment rationalist ideas preoccupied with archaic primordialism, evolution, organicism, vitalism and race. As well as considering the ideological impact of National Socialism and Fascism on Hindu nationalism in the 1930s, the book also looks at how Aryanism continues to be promoted in unexpected forms in contemporary India.Using a wide range of historical and contemporary sources, the author considers the consequences of Hindu nationalist resurgence in the light of contemporary debates about minorities, secular citizenship, ethics and modernity.
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Warriors in Politics: Hindu Nationalism, Violence, and the Shiv Sena in India » Read Now
by Sikata Banerjee. 210 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Sikata Banerjee is assistant professor of political science at the University of Lethbridge in Canada.
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Hindu Nationalists in India: The Rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party » Read Now
by Yogendra K. Malik, V. B. Singh. 262 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...State, 232 Hindu Nationalism and the BJP Versus Indian Nationalism...BJP , with its emphasis on Hindu nationalism, at the center stage of Indian...India: Indian...
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The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India » Read Now
by Thomas Blom Hansen. 288 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our attention to recent events in the world's largest democracy, India. Here he analyzes Indian receptivity to the right-wing...
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The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our attention to recent events in the world's largest democracy, India. Here he analyzes Indian receptivity to the right-wing Hindu nationalist party and its political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which claims to create a polity based on "ancient" Hindu culture. Rather than interpreting Hindu nationalism as a mainly religious phenomenon, or a strictly political movement Hansen places the BJP within the context of the larger transformations of democratic governance in India.
Hansen demonstrates that democratic transformation has enabled such developments as political mobilization among the lower castes and civil protections for religious minorities. Against this backdrop, the Hindu nationalist movement has successfully articulated the anxieties and desires of the lange and amorphous Indian middle class. A form of conservative populism, the movement has attracted not only privileged groups fearing encroachment on their dominant positions but also "plebe
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Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India » Read Now
by Meera Nanda. 309 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

The leading voices in science studies have argued that modern science reflects dominant social interests of Western society. Following this logic, postmodern scholars have urged postcolonial societies to develop their own "alternative sciences" as a step towards "mental decolonization." These ideas...
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The leading voices in science studies have argued that modern science reflects dominant social interests of Western society. Following this logic, postmodern scholars have urged postcolonial societies to develop their own "alternative sciences" as a step towards "mental decolonization." These ideas have found a warm welcome among Hindu nationalists who came to power in India in the early 1990s. In this passionate and highly original study, Indian-born author Meera Nanda reveals how these well-meaning but ultimately misguided ideas are enabling Hindu ideologues to propagate religious myths in the guise of science and secularism. At the heart of Hindu supremacist ideology, Nanda argues, lies a postmodernist assumption: that each society has its own norms of reasonableness, logic, rules of evidence, and conception of truth, and that there is no non-arbitary, culture-independent way to choose among these alternatives. What is being celebrated as "difference" by postmodernists, however, has more oftenthan not been the source of mental bondage and authoritarianism in non-Western cultures. The "Vedic sciences" currently endorsed in Indian schools, colleges, and the mass media promotes the same elements of orthodox Hinduism that have for centuries deprived the vast majority of Indian people of their full humanity. By denouncing science and secularization, the left was unwittingly contributing to what the author calls "reactionary modernism." In contrast, Nanda points to the Dalit, or untouchable, movement as a true example of an "alternative science" that has embraced reason and modern science to challenge traditional notions of hierarchy.
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Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India (Part I "Mobilizing Hindutva") » Read Now
by David Ludden. 349 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Conspiracy? The Puzzle of Hindu Nationalism Amrita Basu 55...the seminar in discussions, Hindu nationalism emerged as the most critical...current state of research on...
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The Women of the Hindutva Brigade, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars » Read Now
by Tanika Sarkar. 9 pgs.

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...Indian state in the name of the Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) movement. 1 Any such transition...involve the redefinition of the state as Hindu rather than as secular or...
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Feminism Inverted: The Real Women and Gendered Imagery of Hindu Nationalism, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars » Read Now
by Amrita Basu. 13 pgs.

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...Women and Gendered Imagery of Hindu Nationalism Amrita Basu * If one...subsequent social movements, Hindu nationalism has sought legitimacy in notions...and the place of...
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Transnational Networks and Hindu Nationalism, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars » Read Now
by Arvind Rajagopal. 14 pgs.

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...Transnational Networks and Hindu Nationalism Contemporary Hindu nationalism articulates a genteel multiculturalist presence...aspects of the U.S. environment. Rightwing...
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Politics after Television: Religious Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Indian Public (Chap. 1 "Hindu Nationalism and the Cultural Forms of Indian Politics" and Chap. 6 "Hindutva Goes Global") » Read Now
by Arvind Rajagopal. 393 pgs.

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Winner of the 2003 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize In January 1987, the Indian state-run television began broadcasting a Hindu epic in serial form, the Ramayan, to nationwide audiences, violating a decades-old taboo on religious partisanship. What resulted was the largest political campaign...
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Winner of the 2003 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize In January 1987, the Indian state-run television began broadcasting a Hindu epic in serial form, the Ramayan, to nationwide audiences, violating a decades-old taboo on religious partisanship. What resulted was the largest political campaign in post-independence times, around the symbol of Lord Ram, led by Hindu nationalists. The complexion of Indian politics was irrevocably changed thereafter. In this book, Arvind Rajagopal analyses this extraordinary series of events. While audiences may have thought they were harking back to an epic golden age, Hindu nationalist leaders were embracing the prospects of neoliberalism and globalisation. Television was the device that hinged these movements together, symbolising the new possibilities of politics, at once more inclusive and authoritarian. Simultaneously, this study examines how the larger historical context was woven into and changed the character of Hindu nationalism.
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Democracy, Nationalism, and Communalism: The Colonial Legacy in South Asia (Chap. 4 "Colonial Hindu Politics: Democracy, Nationalism, and Communalism") » Read Now
by Asma Barlas. 241 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...4 Colonial Hindu Politics: Democracy, Nationalism, and Communalism 95...on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism , London: Verso, revised...chapters I argue that both Hindu...
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The Rhetoric of Hindu Nationalism: A Narrative of Mythic Redefinition, in Western Journal of Communication » Read Now
by Robert C. Rowland, Abhik Roy. 23 pgs.

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Regenerating Masculinity in the Construction of Hindu Nationalist Identity: A Case Study of Shiv Sena, in Communication Studies » Read Now
by Abhik Roy. 17 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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The Ruined Center: Religion and Mass Politics in India, in Journal of International Affairs » Read Now
by Peter van der Veer. 24 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...has been in the forefront of Hindu nationalism since its founding in 1925...and the other Muslim. Again, Hindu nationalism, as we know it today, is largely...Untouchable...
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Religious Nationalism and Democratic Polity: The Indian Case, in Sociology of Religion » Read Now
by T. K. Oommen. 18 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...trajectories of these religious nationalisms -- Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh -- because...important vote bank against Hindu nationalism. Second, the presence of...the...