Hindu Wife Hindu Nation

Author : Tanika Sarkar
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0253340462

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Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation by Tanika Sarkar Pdf

What are the major Hindu ideas and traditions of India that have shaped dominant conceptions of womanhood, domesticity, wifeliness, and mothering, and of India as a Hindu nation? Tanika Sarkar analyzes literary and social traditions, the elite voices and popular culture that helped create the lived reality of north India today. She explores the proto-nationalist novels of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya as well as scandal literature, rumors, women's memoirs, and the popular press of colonial times for the subaltern ideas that have shaped contemporary India. Sarkar also examines the way earlier Indian religious traditions of saintliness, sacrifice, heroism, and warfare are being subverted or transformed by militant and fundamentalist forms of Hinduism.

Author : Tanika Sarkar
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015051818121

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Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation by Tanika Sarkar Pdf

Study with special reference to Bengal (India).

Author : Anna Schultz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199730834

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Singing a Hindu Nation by Anna Schultz Pdf

Singing a Hindu Nation is a study of rāgsgtrīya kīrtan, a western Indian performance medium that combines song, Hindu philosophical discourse, and nationalist storytelling. Author Anna Schultz demonstrates how, through this particular form of musical performance, the political becomes devotional, and explores why it motivates people to action and violence.

Author : Tanika Sarkar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197654224

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Hindu Nationalism in India by Tanika Sarkar Pdf

In the twenty-first century, there has been a seismic shift in Indian political, religious and social life. The country's guiding spirit was formerly a fusion of the anti-caste worldview of B.R. Ambedkar; the inclusive Hinduism of Mahatma Gandhi; and the agnostic secularism of Jawaharlal Nehru. Today, that fusion has given way to Hindutva. This now-dominant version of Hinduism blends the militant nationalism of V.D. Savarkar; the Brahmanical anti-minorityism of M.S. Golwalkar; and the global Islamophobia of India's ruling regime. It requires deep cultural analysis and historical understanding, as only the sharpest and most profoundly informed historian can provide. For two decades, Tanika Sarkar has forged a path through the alleys and byways of Hindutva. She has trawled through the writing and iconography of its organisations and institutions, including RSS schools and VHP temples. She has visited the offices and homes of Hindutva's votaries, interviewing men and women who believe fervently in their mission of Hinduising India. And she has contextualised this new ferment on the ground with her formidable archival knowledge of Hindutva's origins and development over 150 years, from Bankimchandra to the Babri mosque and beyond. This riveting book connects Hindu religious nationalism with the cultural politics of everyday India.

Author : Sikata Banerjee
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791483695

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Make Me a Man! by Sikata Banerjee Pdf

Looks at the ideals of masculine Hinduism—and the corresponding feminine ideals—that have built the Indian nation, and explores their consequences.

Author : Paola Bacchetta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X004887894

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Gender in the Hindu Nation by Paola Bacchetta Pdf

On the political role and Hindu sentiments of women members of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh, an Indian political party; articles.

Author : Swami Vivekananda,Vivekananda Kendra
Publisher : Vivekananda Kendra
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1963-01-12
Category : Hinduism and culture
ISBN : 9788189248109

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Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation by Swami Vivekananda,Vivekananda Kendra Pdf

Eknathji Ranade has compile @200pages book from Swami Vivekananda's Complete works on occasion of the Birth Centenary of Swami Vivekananda and this book is release on 12th January 1963. This book is translated in more than 13 Indian Language.

Author : D. Anand
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230339545

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Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear by D. Anand Pdf

The representation of the Muslims as threatening to India's body politic is central to the Hindu nationalist project of organizing a political movement and normalizing anti-minority violence. Adopting a critical ethnographic approach, this book identifies the poetics and politics of fear and violence engendered within Hindu nationalism.

Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400828036

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Hindu Nationalism by Christophe Jaffrelot Pdf

Hindu nationalism came to world attention in 1998, when the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won national elections in India. Although the BJP was defeated nationally in 2004, it continues to govern large Indian states, and the movement it represents remains a major force in the world's largest democracy. This book presents the thought of the founding fathers and key intellectual leaders of Hindu nationalism from the time of the British Raj, through the independence period, to the present. Spanning more than 130 years of Indian history and including the writings of both famous and unknown ideologues, this reader reveals how the "Hindutuva" movement approaches key issues of Indian politics. Covering such important topics as secularism, religious conversion, relations with Muslims, education, and Hindu identity in the growing diaspora, this reader will be indispensable for anyone wishing to understand contemporary Indian politics, society, culture, or history.

Author : Thomas Blom Hansen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400823055

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The Saffron Wave by Thomas Blom Hansen Pdf

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 large 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 "plebeian" and impoverished groups seeking recognition around a majoritarian rhetoric of cultural pride, order, and national strength. Combining political theory, ethnographic material, and sensitivity to colonial and postcolonial history, The Saffron Wave offers fresh insights into Indian politics and, by focusing on the links between democracy and ethnic majoritarianism, advances our understanding of democracy in the postcolonial world.

Author : Achin Vanaik
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786630742

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The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism by Achin Vanaik Pdf

The definitive analysis of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and the challenges for the radical Left With the Hindu nationalist BJP now replacing the Congress as the only national political force, the communalization of the Indian polity has qualitatively advanced since the earlier edition of this book in 1997. This edition has been substantially reworked and updated with several new chapters added. Hindutva’s rise necessitates a more critical take on mainstream secular claims, ironically reinforced by liberal–left sections discovering special virtues in India’s ‘distinctive’ secularism. The careful evaluation of the ongoing debate on ‘Indian fascism’ has resonances for the broader debate about how best to assess the dangers of the far right’s rise in other liberal democracies. A study follows of how Hindutva forces are pursuing their project of establishing a Hindu Rashtra and how to thwart them through a wider transformative struggle targeting capitalism itself.

Author : Ramabai Sarasvati
Publisher : Philadelphia : [s.n.]
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Social Science
ISBN : HARVARD:HNBP6S

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The High-caste Hindu Woman by Ramabai Sarasvati Pdf

Author : Tanika Sarkar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124122123

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Rebels, Wives, Saints by Tanika Sarkar Pdf

In Rebels, Wives, Saints, acclaimed scholar Tanika Sarkar continues her revolutionary scholarship on women, religion, and nationhood in colonial Bengal. The colonial universe Sarkar describes in Rebels, Wives, Saints centers around symbols of women as both defiled and deified, exemplified in the idea of woman as widow and woman as goddess. The nation, Sarkar explains, is imagined as a woman-goddess within a country comprising plural cultural traditions. Sarkar also broadens the discussion to consider male reformers who battle Hindu conservatives, a Hindu novelist who idealizes nationalism as a means for overcoming Muslim influence, male-dominant social norms, and theatre and censorship. Throughout the book, Sarkar deploys her trademark focus on small, specific, emotional defining moments in order to arrive at a larger, compelling picture that reveals how people actually feel and experience life in Bengal.

Author : Jörg Friedrichs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429862076

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Hindu–Muslim Relations by Jörg Friedrichs Pdf

This book reconstructs Hindu–Muslim relations from a European standpoint. Drawing from the Indian context, the author explores options for Western Europe – a region grappling with the refugee crisis and populist reactions to the growth of Muslim minorities. The author shows how India can serve not only as a model but also as a warning for Europe. For example, European liberals may learn not only from the achievements of Indian secularism but also from its crisis. Based on extensive interviews with Indians from diverse backgrounds, from politicians to social activists and from the middle class to slum dwellers, the volume investigates a wide range of perspectives: Hindu and Muslim, religious and secular, moderate and militant. Relevant, engaging and accessible, this book speaks to a broad audience of concerned citizens and policy makers. Scholars of political science, sociology, modern history, cultural studies and South Asian studies will be particularly interested.

Author : Aakar Patel
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789354927966

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Our Hindu Rashtra by Aakar Patel Pdf

India has taken so sharp a turn in recent years that the very centre has shifted considerably. What led to this swing? Is it possible to trace the path to this point? Is there a way back to the just, secular, inclusive vision of our Constitution-makers? This country has long been an outlier in its South Asian neighbourhood, with its inclusive Constitution and functioning democracy. The growth of Hindutva, in some sense, brings India in line with the other polities here. In Our Hindu Rashtra, writer and activist Aakar Patel peels back layer after layer of cause and effect through independent India's history to understand how Hindutva came to gain such a hold on the country. He examines what it means for India that its laws and judiciary have been permeated by prejudice and bigotry, what the breach of fundamental rights portends in these circumstances, and what the all-round institutional collapse signifies for the future of Indians. Most importantly, Patel asks and answers that most important of questions: What possibilities exist for a return? Thought-provoking and pulling no punches, this book is an essential read for anyone who wishes to understand the nature of politics in India and, indeed, South Asia.