Hindutva

About: Hindutva is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 416 publications have been published within this topic receiving 5727 citations.

The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India

Abstract: Analyzing Indian receptivity to the right-wing Hindu nationalist party, this book also explores its political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which claims to create a policy based on "ancient" Hindu culture. The author places the BJP within the context of the larger transformation of democratic governance in India. The text goes on to argue that the Hindu nationalist movement has successfully articulated the anxieties and desires of the large and amorphous Indian middle class. Consequently, the movement has attracted privileged groups fearing encroachment on their dominant positions but also "plebian" and impoverished groups seeking recognition around a majoritarian rhetoric of cultural pride, order, and national strength. This book aims to advance the understanding of democarcy in the post-colonial world.

Politics after Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India

Abstract: Introduction 1. Hindu nationalism and the cultural forms of Indian politics 2. Prime time religion 3. The communicating thing and its public 4. A 'Split Public' in the making and unmaking of the Ram Janmabhumi movement 5. Organization, performance and symbol 6. Hindutva goes global Conclusion.

Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism

Abstract: The Hindu wife and the Hindu nation - domesticity and nationalism in colonial Bengal talking about scandals - religion, law and love in colonial Bengal imaging Hindu Rashtra - the Hindu and the Muslim in the writings of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya nationalist iconography - the image of "Woman" in 19th century Bengali literature rhetoric against "the Age of Consent" Bankimchandra and the impossiblity of a political agenda a prehistory of rights - the "Age of Consent Debate" aspects of contemporary Hindutva theology - the voice of Sadhvi Rithambhara.

Power and Contestation: India since 1989

Abstract: * 1. Introduction: The Conjuncture of the 1990s * 2. Revolt of the Lower Castes * 3. Hindutva: Politics of the Hindu Right * 4. Nation Under Siege * 5. Globalization I: Accelerated Development * 6. Globalization II: The New Economy of Desire * 7. Left and the Social Movements: Looking Towards the Future * 8. India in the World

Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies and Modern Myths

Abstract: 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.