The secret life of another Indian nationalism: transitions from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana
Introduction -- Colonialism, Orientalism, Nationalism and the Shaping of Popular -- History and Religion -- James Tod and Popular Indian Nationalism -- War and Violence in Savarkar's View of Indian History -- The Vishva Hindu Parishad's Fantasmagorical History -- The Politics of Vishva Hin...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | Metamorphoses of the political: multidisciplinary approaches
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Nationalism
/ Hindutva
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
National characteristics, East Indian
B Hindutva B India Ethnic relations Political aspects B Nationalism (India) History B India Politics and government 19th century B India Politics and government 20th century |
| Summary: | Introduction -- Colonialism, Orientalism, Nationalism and the Shaping of Popular -- History and Religion -- James Tod and Popular Indian Nationalism -- War and Violence in Savarkar's View of Indian History -- The Vishva Hindu Parishad's Fantasmagorical History -- The Politics of Vishva Hindu Parishad Conversion -- An Other history of Religion -- Myth and Medical Pluralism as Resistance to Hindu Nationalism. "The Secret Life of An Other Indian Nationalism is a study of the genealogy of right-wing Indian nationalism. Identifying two different kinds of nationalisms, the proposal focuses on exclusivist (Savarkar) as distinct from inclusivist Indian nationalism (Gandhi) that would deny belonging to a major section of the population. At its core are the Mer, a forest community that was subject to violent colonial conquest and sedentarisation and later to the colonisation of the mind through popular history and ideological religion. This book tracks the conjuncture of this community, ideology and texts over two centuries, from 1820 to 2019 based on conventional, textual and oral history archives. Two of the main themes of the book are popular history and popular religion. It examines how religious nationalism fabricates a popular and phantasmagorical history to craft identity, individual and collective, and details how the modern category of "religion" fostered by Hindutva seeks to overlay the complex world of lived Hinduism"-- |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben, Literaturhinweise Register Seite 265-289 |
| ISBN: | 1108832571 |