Making India hindu: religion, community and the politics of democracy in India /

Making India hindu: religion, community and the politics of democracy in India / edited by David Ludden - 2nd Ed. - New Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 2010. - xxi,: 350 p. - Oxford India paperbacks .

Contents:-
Introduction
1. Movilizing Hindutva --
2. Mass Movement or Elite Conspiracy The Puzzle of Hindu Nationalism --
3. Communal Mobilization and Changing Majority in UP --
4. Mass Media : Images, Mobilization, and Communalism --
Parts 2. Genealogies of Hindu and muslim,
5.Music, the media, and communal Relations in North India, Past and Present --
6. Soldier Monks and Militant sadhus --
7. Imagining Hindurashtra: The Hindu and the Musilm in Bankim Chandra's Wriings --
8. The Myth of Unity: Colonial and National Narratives --
Part 3. Community and Conflict --
9. Contesting in Public: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Communalism --
10. Communalism and Modernity --
11. Writhing Violence --
12. Indian Nationalism and the Politics of Hindutva

Takes a critical look at the mobilizations, genealogies, and interpretive conflicts that have attended efforts to make India Hindu since the rise to power of Hindu political parties since 1980. This work also highlights how Hindutva operates inside India's political mainstream.

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Communalism --Hinduism and politi-- India
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