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Title:

Majoritarian state : how Hindu nationalism is changing India / Angana P. Chatterji, Thomas Blom Hansen and Christophe Jaffrelot (Editors).

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xii, 537 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Nationalism--India--History--21st century.
Hindus--India--Politics and government--21st century.
Nationalism--Hinduism.--Hinduism.
India--Politics and government--21st century.

Other Authors:

Chatterji, Angana P., editor.
Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- editor.
Jaffrelot, Christophe, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Remaking the Hindu/nation : terror and impunity in Uttar Pradesh / Angana P. Chatterji. Part VIII. Majoritarianism as democracy. Democracy against the law : reflections on India's illiberal democracy / Thomas Blom Hansen ; A de facto ethnic democracy? : obliterating and targeting the Other, Hindu vigilantes, and the ethno-state / Christophe Jaffrelot ; Immoral times : vigilantism in a South Indian city / Ian M. Cook ; Reflections in the crowd : delegation, verisimilitude, and the Modi mask / Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi -- Part II. Debates on hegemony. Toward hegemony : the BJP beyond electoral dominance / Suhas Palshikar ; Can Modi and the BJP achieve and sustain hegemony? / James Manor -- Part III. The Sangh Parivar : a new deep state? Sangh and Sarkar : the RSS power centre shifts from Nagpur to New Delhi / Pralay Kanungo ; How the Sangh Parivar writes and teaches history / Tanika Sarkar -- Part IV. Economic policies and 'Modinomics.' Merchants of hype and hate : a political-economic evaluation of the Modi regime / Pranab Bardhan ; Contours of crony capitalism in the Modi Raj / A. K. Bhattacharya and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta -- Part V. The other 40 per cent : the Hindu nation and its margins. Dalits in post-2014 : between promise and action / Sukhadeo Thorat ; Rohith Vemula's revolutionary suicide / Abdul R. JanMohamed ; Hindutva incorporation and socioeconomic exclusion : the Adivasi dilemma / Nandini Sundar ; Kashmiris in the Hindu Rashtra / Mridu Rai ; Playing the waiting game : the BJP, Hindutva, and the Northeast / Arkotong Longkumer -- Part VI. Diplomacy and global aspiration -- Foreign policy under Modi : between aspiration and achievement / C. Raja Mohan ; Sculpting the saffron body : yoga Hindutva, and the international marketplace / Jyoti Puri -- Part VII. What rule of law? Aggressive Hindu nationalism : contextualising the triple Talaq controversy / Flavia Agnes ; 'Belief' in the rule of law and the Hindu nation and the rule of law / Ratna Kapur -- Part VIII. Gender and nation. Queer presence in/and Hindu nationalism / Paola Bacchetta ; Remaking the Hindu/nation : terror and impunity in Uttar Pradesh / Angana P. Chatterji.

ISBN:

0190078170
9780190078171

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1091587060

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)