Hindu nationalism : origins, ideologies, and modern myths
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320.55 JOS/S State and civil society under siege : Hindutva, security and militarism in India | 320.550 POL Political Hinduism:the religiuos imagination in public spheres | 320.550954 AKS/G Gita Press and the making of Hindu India | 320.550954 CHE/H Hindu nationalism : origins, ideologies, and modern myths | 320.550954 HIN Hindu nationalism and governance | 320.550954 VAN/R Religious nationalism : hindus and muslims in India | 320.557 MAH/G Good Muslim, bad Muslim : Islam, the USA, and the global war against terror |
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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