Thomas Blom Hansen is the Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. He founded and directed Stanford's Center for South Asia from 2010 to 2017. He is an anthropologist of political life, ethno-religious identities, violence and urban life in South Asia and Southern Africa. He has multiple theoretical and disciplinary interests from political theory and continental philosophy to psychoanalysis, comparative religion and contemporary urbanism. Srirupa Roy heads the research group 'State and Democracy' at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen. She currently serves on the steering committee and advisory board of the Inter-Asia Program at the Social Science Research Council (New York). Her research interests include nationalism and the politics of identity; comparative-historical dynamics of state formation and transformation; and democratic politics and economic liberalization.

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• 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.