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Author : Vinayak Chaturvedi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1438488777
Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism.
Author : Denis Vidal,Gilles Tarabout,Eric Meyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015061125855
How Do We Understand Those Asectics Who Have Developed An Extremely Elaborate Martial Tradition An Yet Have Been Taken Strict Vows Of Non-Violence, Especially When, For Some Ascetics Today, That Tradition Has Been Put At The Service Of The Most Extreme Forms Of Hindu Militancy? And How Is That Tough Union Leaders Can, With Conviction Shere The Same Ideas As Gandhi, Or That Brahmins Scarcely Hesitate Before Using The Stick, Even Though They Loudly And Insistently Advertise Their Faith In Non-Violence?
Author : R.C. Tripathi,Purnima Singh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788132226130
This volume brings together important and original perspectives from South Asia on the relationship between violence---an increasingly important issue in multicultural societies---and the process of othering. The contributors state that societies create 'others' through deliberate acts of selection over a period of time. The objective of the process of othering is to deny rights and privileges that one sets for one's own group. This volume affirms that central to the understanding of violence in any society is the understanding of othering processes. Violence and nonviolence are influenced by the nature of othering processes as well as the kinds of others in a society. Groups engaged in mutual othering are also the ones that are often involved in violent relationships. Renowned scholars from diverse fields provide multidisciplinary perspectives on violence and othering, discussing the concepts of violence and nonviolence in multicultural societies, communal harmony, constructions of the other, truth commissions, state censorship of 'sensitive' issues, fundamentalism and secularism in multifaith societies, and specific cases from recent violence-prone areas. This volume focuses on the South Asian, and more specifically, the Indian context, but is relevant for researchers seeking to understand these issues anywhere in the world.
Author : Paul R. Brass
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0295985062
Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that it would seem to defy effective analysis. In this volume, Paul R. Brass, one of the world’s preeminent experts on South Asia, reports the results of an immense scholarly undertaking: his tracking of more than half a century’s riots in the north Indian city of Aligarh, where he has conducted extraordinary research for the past thirty-eight years.
Author : Sikata Banerjee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000009118
In theorizing about the link between violence and the politics of nationalism, most scholars have rejected the idea that primordial hatred between different ethnic and/or religious groups residing in close proximity will inevitably lead to conflict and the call for an ethnically/religiously pure nation-state. Rather, conflict tends to occur when humans manipulate social, political, economic, and ideological factors to construct nationalist identities and movements. The manipulation perspective is the underlying theoretical framework of Warriors in Politics which uses the Mumbai riots of December 1992 and January 1993 to analyze the brand of nationalism created and disseminated by the Indian political party Shiv Sena. While the theoretical and empirical research of others is an important part of this study, interviews conducted by the author when she lived in Mumbai during this tumultuous period as well as her own theorizing on the links among masculinity, militarism, and nationalism, provide an analysis of the factors - economic, political, and ideological - that converge to transform the simmering discontent of the politics of nationalism into violent conflict.
Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226249285
For decades India has been intermittently tormented by brutal outbursts of religious violence, thrusting thousands of ordinary Hindus and Muslims into bloody conflict. In this provocative work, psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar exposes the psychological roots of Hindu-Muslim violence and examines with grace and intensity the subjective experience of religious hatred in his native land. With honesty, insight, and unsparing self-reflection, Kakar confronts the profoundly enigmatic relations that link individual egos to cultural moralities and religious violence. His innovative psychological approach offers a framework for understanding the kind of ethnic-religious conflict that has so vexed social scientists in India and throughout the world. Through riveting case studies, Kakar explores cultural stereotypes, religious antagonisms, ethnocentric histories, and episodic violence to trace the development of both Hindu and Muslim psyches. He argues that in early childhood the social identity of every Indian is grounded in traditional religious identifications and communalism. Together these bring about deep-set psychological anxieties and animosities toward the other. For Hindus and Muslims alike, violence becomes morally acceptable when communally and religiously sanctioned. As the changing pressures of modernization and secularism in a multicultural society grate at this entrenched communalism, and as each group vies for power, ethnic-religious conflicts ignite. The Colors of Violence speaks with eloquence and urgency to anyone concerned with the postmodern clash of religious and cultural identities.
Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Communalism
ISBN : 0140251642
Drawing Connections Between History, Individual Development, Group Psychology And The Cultures Of Specific Communities, The Colours Of Violence Paints Richly Textured Portraits Of A Range Of Subjects Involved In Riots, And Focuses On Not Just The Survivors But Also The Agents Of Violence. With Insight And Unsparing Self-Reflection, Kakar Shows How Hindu And Muslim Identities Are Formed By Rumour, Religion And Bigotry, And How They Are Fuelled By Nostalgic Histories And The Anxieties And Uncertainties Produced By The Process Of Modernization.
Author : Ward Berenschot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8129123754
"This is a study of communal violence in India that looks at a range of actors, including criminals, politicians, local leaders, police officers and Hindu-nationalist activists. It is an ethnography revealing the links between violence and political mediation."--Publisher's description.
Author : Raheel Dhattiwala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108497596
Investigates geographic variation in Hindu-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002 critically examining the logic of political violence.
Author : Amrita Basu,Srirupa Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Communalism
ISBN : UCSC:32106019160149
Most of the papers presented at the Workshop on Violence and the State in India, held at Amherst during 30 April - 1 May 2004.
Author : Angana P. Chatterji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Communalism
ISBN : UOM:39015080552881
This book is an erudite and elegiac exploration of Hindu nationalism in India today. It offers a revealing account of Hindu militant mobilizations as an authoritarian movement manifest throughout culture, polity, and economy, religion and law, class and caste, on gender, body, land, and memory. Tracing the continuities between Hindutva and Hindu cultural dominance, this book maps the architectures of civic and despotic governmentalities contouring Hindu nationalism in public, domestic, and everyday life. In chronicling concerted action against Christians and Muslims, Adivasis and Dalits, through spectacles, events, public executions, the riots in Kandhamal of December 2007 and August-September 2008, the planned, methodical politics of terror unfolds in its multiple registers. At the intersections of Anthropology, Postcolonial, Subaltern, and South Asia Studies, Angana P. Chatterji asks critical questions of nation making, cultural nationalism, and subaltern disenfranchisement. As a Foucauldian history of the present, this text asserts the role of ethical knowledge production as counter-memory.
Author : Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691151779
In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death. The ruling nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party blamed Gujarat's entire Muslim minority for the tragedy and incited fellow Hindus to exact revenge. The resulting violence left more than one thousand people dead--most of them Muslims--and tens of thousands more displaced from their homes. Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi witnessed the bloodshed up close. In Pogrom in Gujarat, he provides a riveting ethnographic account of collective violence in which the doctrine of ahimsa--or nonviolence--and the closely associated practices of vegetarianism became implicated by legitimating what they formally disavow. Ghassem-Fachandi looks at how newspapers, movies, and other media helped to fuel the pogrom. He shows how the vegetarian sensibilities of Hindus and the language of sacrifice were manipulated to provoke disgust against Muslims and mobilize the aspiring middle classes across caste and class differences in the name of Hindu nationalism. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of Gujarat's culture and politics and the close ties he shared with some of the pogrom's sympathizers, Ghassem-Fachandi offers a strikingly original interpretation of the different ways in which Hindu proponents of ahimsa became complicit in the very violence they claimed to renounce.
Author : Angana P. Chatterji,Thomas Blom Hansen,Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190078171
Majoritarian State traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its agenda is also pursued beyond the formal branches of government, as the new dispensation portrays conventional social hierarchies as intrinsic to Indian culture while condoning communal and caste- and gender-based violence. The contributors explore how Hindutva ideology has permeated the state apparatus and formal institutions, and how Hindutva activists exert control over civil society via vigilante groups, cultural policing and violence. Groups and regions portrayed as 'enemies' of the Indian state are the losers in a new order promoting the interests of the urban middle class and business elites. As this majoritarian ideology pervades the media and public discourse, it also affects the judiciary, universities and cultural institutions, increasingly captured by Hindu nationalists. Dissent and difference silenced and debate increasingly sidelined as the press is muzzled or intimidated in the courts. Internationally, the BJP government has emphasised hard power and a fast- expanding security state. This collection of essays offers rich empirical analysis and documentation to investigate the causes and consequences of the illiberal turn taken by the world's largest democracy.
Author : Ornit Shani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521683692
Belligerent Hindu nationalism, accompanied by recurring communal violence between Hindus and Muslims, has become a compelling force in Indian politics over the last two decades of the twentieth century. Ornit Shani's book, which examines the rise of communalism, asks why distinct groups of Hindus, deeply divided by caste, mobilised on the basis of unitary Hindu nationalism? And why was the Hindu nationalist rhetoric about the threat from the essentially impoverished Muslim minority so persuasive to the Hindu majority? Shani uses evidence from communal violence in Ahmedabad, the largest and most prosperous city in Gujarat, long considered the 'laboratory' of Hindu nationalism, as the basis for her investigations. She argues that, contrary to the currently perceived wisdom, the growth of communalism did not lie in Hindu-Muslim antagonisms alone. It was rather an expression of intensifying tensions among Hindus, nurtured by changes in the caste regime and associated state policies. The causes for the resulting uncertainties among Hindus were frequently displaced onto Muslims, thus enabling caste tensions to develop and deepen communal rivalries. The book offers a significant and persuasive challenge to previous scholarship on the rise of communalism, providing a conceptual framework for thinking of similar conflicts elsewhere. It will be welcomed by students and readers with a professional interest in the region. Book jacket.