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The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics 1925-1994: Social and Political Strategies - Hardcover
In a historically rich, detailed account of the Hindu nationalist movement in India since the 1920s, Jaffrelot explores how rapid changes in the political, social, and economic climate have made India fertile soil for the growth of the primary arm of Hindu nationalism, a paramilitary-style group known as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), together with its political offshoots. He argues that political uneasiness, created by real and imagined threats of colonialism and the presence of minority groups, paved the way for militant Hinduism on the Indian subcontinent. He shows how the Hindu movement uses religion to enter the political sphere, and argues the ideology they speak for has less to do with Hindu philosophy than with ethnic nationalism, borrowing form modern European models.
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0670860867
- ISBN 13 9780670860869
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages592
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The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics_ 1925 to the 1990s_ Strategies of Identity-Building, Implantation and Mobilisation (with special reference to Central India)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. black cloth, dust jacket, 592 pp. Seller Inventory # 91996
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