The Secret Life of Another Indian Nationalism

Transitions from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana

AvShail Mayaram

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Nationalism is among the most influential ideas that has shaped the 'Metamorphoses of the Political' in the long twentieth century. This book focuses on exclusivist Indian nationalism and identifies its distinction from inclusivist nationalism. It highlights shifts in 'another Indian nationalism' over the last two centuries as the geopolitical context has transitioned from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana and its war on terror. The books braids the following three strands together: first, a majoritarian nationalist ideology called Hindutva; second, the making of popular history as a precolonial epic is highlighted, depicting the defeat of the last Hindu Emperor by a conquering Muslim Sultan purportedly leading to eight centuries of Hindu enslavement and third, the 'reconversion' of a community by the Visva Hindu Parishad with consequences for Lived Hinduism and Indic civilisation with its complex identities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-06-16
Mått:158 x 236 x 24 mm
Vikt:550 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
Antal sidor:310
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108832571

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Nationalism inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Shail Mayaram is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi and Co-Director of the International Center for Advanced Study (ICAS-MP). Some of her publications include Against History, Against State: Counterperspectives from the Margins (2003); Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity (2016, 2nd edition) and Israel as the Gift of the Arabs: Letters from Tel Aviv (2015).

Recensioner i media

'This magisterial book brings together history, ethnography and political theory to compose a remarkable argument about the ways in which colonial administrative knowledge made a deep contribution to the transformation of vernacular nationalism into Hindutva hyper-nationalism. Shail Mayaram's book brings Rajasthan into the deep history of postcolonial Hindu fundamentalism in India and deals a decisive blow to the orientalist fantasy of Rajasthan as an Indian setting for the Game of Thrones.' Arjun Appadurai, New York University

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; List of illustrations; Note on transliteration; 1. Introduction: colonialism, orientalism, nationalism and the shaping of popular history and religion; 2. James Tod and popular Indian nationalism; 3. War and violence in Savarkar's view of Indian history; 4. The Vishva Hindu Parishad's Fantasmagorical history; 5. The politics of Vishva Hindu Parishad conversion; 6. Another history of religion; 7. Myth and medical pluralism as resistance to Hindu nationalism; Bibliography; Index.