Neo-Hindutva
Evolving Forms, Spaces, and Expressions of Hindu Nationalism
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Neo-Hindutva
Evolving Forms, Spaces, and Expressions of Hindu Nationalism
About this book
Neo-Hindutva explores the recent proliferation and evolution of Hindu nationalism – the assertive majoritarian, right-wing ideology that is transforming contemporary India.
This volume develops and expands on the idea of 'neo-Hindutva' –– Hindu nationalist ideology which is evolving and shifting in new, surprising, and significant ways, requiring a reassessment and reframing of prevailing understandings. The contributors identify and explain the ways in which Hindu nationalism increasingly permeates into new spaces: organisational, territorial, conceptual, rhetorical. The scope of the chapters reflect the diversity of contemporary Hindutva – both in India and beyond – which appears simultaneously brazen but concealed, nebulous and mainstreamed, militant yet normalised. They cover a wide range of topics and places in which one can locate new forms of Hindu nationalism: courts of law, the Northeast, the diaspora, Adivasi (tribal) communities, a powerful yoga guru, and the Internet. The volume also includes an in-depth interview with Christophe Jaffrelot and a postscript by Deepa Reddy.
Helping readers to make sense of contemporary Hindutva, Neo-Hindutva is ideal for scholars of India, Hinduism, Nationalism, and Asian Studies more generally. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary South Asia.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction: – ‘Neo-Hindutva’: Evolving forms, spaces, and expressions of Hindu nationalism
- 2 ‘Court’ing Hindu nationalism: law and the rise of modern Hindutva
- 3 ‘Nagas can’t sit lotus style’: Baba Ramdev, Patanjali, and Neo-Hindutva
- 4 Awakening Hindu nationalism through yoga: Swami Ramdev and the Bharat Swabhiman movement
- 5 Authority, ethics and service (seva) amongst Hindu nationalists in India’s assertive margins
- 6 Neo-Hindutva affective economies: feelings of pride and offense among Surinamese Hindus in the Netherlands
- 7 Open Access: Enterprise Hindutva and social media in urban India
- 8 Hindu nationalism and the ‘saffronisation of the public sphere’: an interview with Christophe Jaffrelot
- 9 What is neo- about neo-Hindutva?
- Index