Hindutva before Hindutva

Selected Writings and Discourses of Chandranath Basu in Translation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

This book weaves the past with the present to trace and analyze the distinctive but reiterative evocations of Hindutva ideology in the modern-colonial period. It studies the concept of Hindutva as understood by its first major spokesperson Chandranath Basu, a formidable late nineteenth-century scholar-critic. The author examines the new rhetoric that has shaped Hindu ideologies in a colonial-modern context by foregrounding debates between Chandranath Basu and radical revisionists such as Rabindranath Tagore. It provides original translations of Basu’s works and brings to light a long-neglected professional literary critic.A unique contribution, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of religion studies, history, postcolonialism, literature, Indian political thought, Indian history, political science, Hindu studies, Hindusim, sociology and political ideology, and South Asian studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-08-20
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:226
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032364674

Utforska kategorier

Nationalism inom Samhälle och politik
Hinduism inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Amiya P. Sen retired as Professor of Modern Indian History from the Department of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Currently, he is Honorary Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford, UK.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface xPART IIntroduction 3PART IISelected Writings 79AAutobiographical 811 Reminiscences of My Childhood 83BThe Philosophical and Social Foundations of Hindutva 912 What Is Hindutva? 933 Soaham (I Am Thou) 974 Loy (Dissolution of the Soul) 1035 Kaa Pantha? (Which Is the Correct Path to Adopt?) 1106 Nishkam Dharma 1157 Hindu Polytheism: Political Sagacity in Religion 1188 The Varna System and the Formation of Our National Character 1249 The Ideal Hindu Diet 12810 Forbearance in the Hindu Tradition 13311 The World as a Mart: The Source of Happiness and Aesthetic Delight 14112 Lessons in Self-disciplining and the Foundations of Character 144CHindutva as Patriarchy 14713 Hindu Marriages 14914 Shakuntalatattva: A Critique of Kalidas’s Abhigyanshakuntala 16115 Savitritattva: Savitri’s Tale 17216 Two Hindu Wives 180DThoughts on Language and Literature 18517 Tale of the English Scholar 18718 Of Biographies 19319 The State of Contemporary Bengali Literature 19620 Thoughts on Bankim’s Anandamath 20621 The Prodigious Poet 209Appendix A 211Appendix B 213References 216Index