Republic Of Hindutva

Author : Badri Narayan
Publisher : Viking
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0670094048

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Republic of Hindutva by Badri Narayan Pdf

For many years, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been working towards social reconstruction in India, which is then used by the Bharatiya Janata Party for political benefit. Contrary to popular understanding, the RSS has transformed to become more technologically savvy and socially inclusive, making the message of Hindu nationalism appealing to a large section of Indians. It has been actively mobilizing Dalits, tribals and other marginalized communities to assimilate them into the Hindutva metanarrative. Instead of wiping out caste from electoral politics, the RSS plays up the identity of disadvantaged groups, which translates into votes for the BJP. Drawing on extensive field research in the heartland of Uttar Pradesh, this path-breaking book shows how through well-planned strategies of appropriation and social work, Hindutva forces are radically reshaping Indian democracy.

Author : Badri Narayan
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788195084371

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Republic of Hindutva by Badri Narayan Pdf

For many years, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been working towards social reconstruction in India, which is then used by the Bharatiya Janata Party for political benefit. Contrary to popular understanding, the RSS has transformed to become more technologically savvy and socially inclusive, making the message of Hindu nationalism appealing to a large section of Indians. It has been actively mobilizing Dalits, tribals and other marginalized communities to assimilate them into the Hindutva metanarrative. Instead of wiping out caste from electoral politics, the RSS plays up the identity of disadvantaged groups, which translates into votes for the BJP. Drawing on extensive field research in the heartland of Uttar Pradesh, this path-breaking book shows how through well-planned strategies of appropriation and social work, Hindutva forces are radically reshaping Indian democracy.

Author : Thomas Blom Hansen,Srirupa Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009100489

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Saffron Republic by Thomas Blom Hansen,Srirupa Roy Pdf

Approaches contemporary Hindutva as an example of a democratic authoritarianism or an authoritarian populism.

Author : K.S. (Kapil Satish) Komireddi
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781805261780

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Malevolent Republic by K.S. (Kapil Satish) Komireddi Pdf

After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehru’s diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nationalism. India, the first major democracy to fall to demagogic populism in the twenty-first century, is racing to a point of no return. Since 2014, the ruling BJP has unleashed forces that are irreversibly transforming the country. Indian democracy, honed over decades, is now the chief enabler of Hindu extremism. Bigotry has been ennobled as a healthy form of self-assertion. Anti Muslim vitriol has deluged the mainstream. Religious minorities live in terror of a vengeful majority. Congress now mimics Modi; other parties pray for a miracle. In this highly acclaimed critique of post-Independence India from Nehru to Narendra Modi, revised and expanded with a new chapter, K.S. Komireddi charts the dismaying course of the world’s largest democracy. He argues that the missteps of the nation’s founders, the mistakes of Nehru, the betrayals of his daughter and her sons, the anti-democratic fetish for technocracy carried to extremes by Manmohan Singh—all of them prepared the way for Modi’s march to absolute power. If secularists fail to wrest the republic from Hindu supremacists, Komireddi argues, India may go the way of Yugoslavia and collapse under the burden of sinister ethno-religious nationalism. A gripping short history of modern India, Malevolent Republic is also a passionate plea for India’s reclamation.

Author : Anand Teltumbde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Caste
ISBN : 818905984X

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Republic of Caste by Anand Teltumbde Pdf

Author : Anustup Basu
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781478012498

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Hindutva as Political Monotheism by Anustup Basu Pdf

In Hindutva as Political Monotheism, Anustup Basu offers a genealogical study of Hindutva—Hindu right-wing nationalism—to illustrate the significance of Western anthropology and political theory to the idea of India as a Hindu nation. Connecting Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt's notion of political theology to traditional theorems of Hindu sovereignty and nationhood, Basu demonstrates how Western and Indian theorists subsumed a vast array of polytheistic, pantheistic, and henotheistic cults featuring millions of gods into a singular edifice of faith. Basu exposes the purported “Hindu Nation” as itself an orientalist vision by analyzing three crucial moments: European anthropologists’ and Indian intellectuals’ invention of a unified Hinduism during the long nineteenth century; Indian ideologues’ adoption of ethnoreligious nationalism in pursuit of a single Hindu way of life in the twentieth century; and the transformations of this project in the era of finance capital, Bollywood, and new media. Arguing that Hindutva aligns with Enlightenment notions of nationalism, Basu foregrounds its significance not just to Narendra Modi's right-wing, anti-Muslim government but also to mainstream Indian nationalism and its credo of secularism and tolerance.

Author : Shail Mayaram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108832571

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The Secret Life of Another Indian Nationalism by Shail Mayaram Pdf

It highlights shifts over two centuries as the geopolitical context has transitioned from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana.

Author : Kim Knott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780198745549

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Hinduism by Kim Knott Pdf

Hinduism is practised by about 80% of India's population, and by about 30,000,000 people outside India. But how is Hinduism defined, and what basis does the religion have? This work gives concise insights into the central preoccupations of Hinduism.

Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691247908

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Modi's India by Christophe Jaffrelot Pdf

A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance Over the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls, first in Gujarat and then in India at large. Modi managed to seduce a substantial number of citizens by promising them development and polarizing the electorate along ethno-religious lines. Both facets of this national-populism found expression in a highly personalized political style as Modi related directly to the voters through all kinds of channels of communication in order to saturate the public space. Drawing on original interviews conducted across India, Christophe Jaffrelot shows how Modi's government has moved India toward a new form of democracy, an ethnic democracy that equates the majoritarian community with the nation and relegates Muslims and Christians to second-class citizens who are harassed by vigilante groups. He discusses how the promotion of Hindu nationalism has resulted in attacks against secularists, intellectuals, universities, and NGOs. Jaffrelot explains how the political system of India has acquired authoritarian features for other reasons, too. Eager to govern not only in New Delhi, but also in the states, the government has centralized power at the expense of federalism and undermined institutions that were part of the checks and balances, including India's Supreme Court. Modi's India is a sobering account of how a once-vibrant democracy can go wrong when a government backed by popular consent suppresses dissent while growing increasingly intolerant of ethnic and religious minorities.

Author : Joel Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108843829

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Deceptive Majority by Joel Lee Pdf

This is an ethnographic history of religious majoritarianism and its sly subversion by one of India's most oppressed minorities.

Author : Arvind Rajagopal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521648394

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Politics After Television by Arvind Rajagopal Pdf

An analysis of the use of media by political and religious interest groups in India

Author : V.D. SAVARKAR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Hinduism and state
ISBN : 9390423317

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Essentials of Hindutva by V.D. SAVARKAR Pdf

Author : Brian A. Hatcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Brahma-samaj
ISBN : 9780674988224

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Hinduism Before Reform by Brian A. Hatcher Pdf

How did Hindu reformers make the religion modern? Brian Hatcher argues that this is the wrong question to ask. Exploring two nineteenth-century Hindu movements, the Brahmo Samaj and the Swaminarayan Sampraday, he challenges the notion of religious reform.

Author : Sohail H. Hashmi,Steven Lee,Steven P. Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0521545269

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Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sohail H. Hashmi,Steven Lee,Steven P. Lee Pdf

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Author : Perry Anderson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788732710

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The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson Pdf

The historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed virtues: harmonious territorial unity, religious impartiality, the miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world’s most populous democracy. Even critics of Indian society still underwrite such claims. But how well does the “Idea of India” correspond to the realities of the Union? In an iconoclastic intervention, Marxist historian Perry Anderson provides an unforgettable reading of the Subcontinent’s passage through Independence and the catastrophe of Partition, the idiosyncratic and corrosive vanities of Gandhi and Nehru, and the close interrelationship of Indian democracy and caste inequality. The Indian Ideology caused uproar on first publication in 2012, not least for breaking with euphemisms for Delhi’s occupation of Kashmir. This new, expanded edition includes the author’s reply to his critics, an interview with the Indian weekly Outlook, and a postscript on India under the rule of Narendra Modi.