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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Contesting the nation. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1996 (OCoLC)605407560 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David E Ludden |
| ISBN: | 0812233549 9780812233544 0812215850 9780812215854 |
| OCLC Number: | 33983560 |
| Description: | ix, 346 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction. Ayodhya: A Window on the World / David Ludden -- Mobilizing Hindutva -- The Iconography of Rama's Chariot / Richard H. Davis -- Mass Movement or Elite Conspiracy? The Puzzle of Hindu Nationalism / Amrita Basu -- Communal Mobilization and Changing Majority in Uttar Pradesh / Zoya Hasan -- Mass Media: Images, Mobilization, and Communalism / Victoria L. Farmer -- Genealogies of Hindu and Muslim -- Music, the Media, and Communal Relations in North India, Past and Present / Peter Manuel -- Soldier Monks and Militant Sadhus / William R. Pinch -- Imagining Hindurashtra: The Hindu and the Muslim in Bankim Chandra's Writings / Tanika Sarkar -- The Myth of Unity: Colonial and National Narratives / Mushirul Hasan -- Community and Conflict -- Contesting in Public: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Communalism / Sandria B. Freitag -- Communalism and Modernity / Richard G. Fox -- Writing Violence / Peter van der Veer -- Indian Nationalism and the Politics of Hindutva / Sumit Sarkar. |
| Series Title: | South Asia seminar series. |
| Responsibility: | edited by David Ludden. |
Abstract:
Today, powerful political forces seek to make the Indian state Hindu. Their rising influence since 1980 has occurred during a period of radical change in Indian society and politics, and has been accomplished by electoral means as well as by organized violence. The 1996 elections will be a major test of their power and of the influence of Hindu majoritarianism among the Indian electorate. Animated by a sense of urgency that was heightened by the massive violence following the destruction of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, Contesting the Nation explores Hindu majoritarian politics over the last century and its dramatic reformulation during the decline of the Congress Party in the 1980s. Twelve prominent scholars from India, Europe, and the United States provide perspectives from the fields of political science, religious studies, ethnomusicology, history, art history, and anthropology, comparing trends in India with ethnic, religious, and cultural movements in other parts of the world.
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