Saffron Republic
Saffron Republic
Srirupa Roy, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
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USDThis volume examines the phenomenon of contemporary Hindu nationalism or 'new Hindutva' that is presently the dominant ideological and political-electoral formation in India. There is a rich body of work on Hindu nationalism, but its main focus is on an earlier moment of insurgent movement politics in the 1980s and 1990s. In contrast, new Hindutva is a governmental formation that converges with wider global currents and enjoys mainstream acceptance. To understand these new political forms and their implications for democratic futures, a fresh set of reflections is in order. This book approaches contemporary Hindutva as an example of a democratic authoritarianism or an authoritarian populism, a politics that simultaneously advances and violates ideas and practices of popular and constitutional democracy.
- Offers an analytical and indicative engagement with the New Hindutva project
- Approaches the phenomenon of contemporary Hindutva as an example of a democratic authoritarianism or an authoritarian populism
- A collective effort in anticipatory writing that engages a particularly fraught present to understand its implications for democratic futures
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August 2022Adobe eBook Reader
9781009276535
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Table of Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- List of tables and images
- 1. What is New about New Hindutva? Thomas Blom Hansen and Srirupa Roy
- Part I. Rule:
- 2. New Hindutva Timeline: September 2013–October 2020 Ashwin Subramanian
- 3. Normalizing Violence: Lessons from Hindu Nationalist India Amrita Basu
- 4. Hindutva Establishments: Right-wing Think Tanks and the Mainstreaming of Governmental Hindutva Srirupa Roy
- 5. New Hindutva and the UP Model: An Interview with Neha Dixit and Nakul Sawhney Srirupa Roy and Thomas Blom Hansen
- Part II. Articulation:
- 6. The Making of a Majoritarian Metropolis: Crowd Action, Public Order, and Communal Zoning in Calcutta Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
- 7. Social Segregation and Everyday Hindutva in Middle India Thomas Blom Hansen
- Part III. Inclusion:
- 8. 'Mitakuye Oyasin – We Are All Related:' Hindutva and Indigeneity in Northeast India Arkotong Longkumer
- 9. From Castes to Nationalist Hindus: The Making of Hinduism as a Civil Religion Suryakant Waghmore
- 10. When Hindutva Performs Muslimness: Encounters with the Muslim Rashtriya Manch Lalit Vachani
- Part IV. Violence:
- 11. Violence after Violence: The Politics of Narrative over the Delhi Pogrom Irfan Ahmad
- 12. Development: India's Foundational Myth Mona Bhan
- 13. Pratikriya, Guilt, and Reactionary Violence Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
- About the contributors
- Index.
