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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101107149878
ISBN-139781107149878
eBay Product ID (ePID)219168002
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Number of Pages227 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRhetoric of Hindutva : Nationalism in Urban India
Publication Year2016
SubjectSociology / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorManisha Basu
Subject AreaSocial Science
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16.7 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2016-010293
Reviews'The Rhetoric of Hindu India is a timely and productive addition to South Asian studies, and its theoretical and methodological frameworks have an applicability beyond the Indian context. The book engenders further conversations about the public(s) that the rhetoric of metropolitan Hindutva gives rise to, the consideration of what makes India 'Hindu' and whether literatures in vernacular languages mimic the movements that Basu has masterfully traced within Anglophone literature.' Nabeel Jafri, International Journal of Hindu Studies
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal320.540954
Table Of ContentPreface; 1. Introductory matters: the strange case of secular India; 2. Time's victims in a Second Republic: new histories, new temporalities; 3. To make free and let die: the economics of metropolitan Hindutva; 4. A power over life and rebirth: V. D. Savarkar and the essentials of Hindutva; 5. Between death and redemption: Hindu India and its antique Others; 6. The afterlife of Indian writing in English: telematic managers, journalistic mantras.
SynopsisThis book examines the late twentieth-century rise of the urban, right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology known as metropolitan Hindutva. This ideology, the book assesses, aspires to be a pan-Indian, urban form that is home to the emerging, digitally enabled, technocratic middle classes of the nation., This book examines the late twentieth-century rise of the urban, right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology known as metropolitan Hindutva. This ideology, the book assesses, aspires to be a pan-Indian, urban form that is home to the emerging, digitally enabled, technocratic middle classes of the nation. Through close analyses of the writings of a range of self-styled public intellectuals, from Arun Shourie and Swapan Dasgupta to Chetan Bhagat and Amish Tripathi, this book maps this new avatar of Hindutva. Finally, in analyzing the language of metropolitan Hindutva, it arrives at an emerging idea of India as part of what Amitav Ghosh has called a contemporary Anglophone empire. This is the first extended scholarly effort to theorize a politics of language in relation to the dangers of such an imperializing Hindutva.
LC Classification NumberBL1215.P65B368 2016
