Ascetics as Activists - Dasgupta, Koushiki
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"Ascetics as Activists examines the position of the female ascetics or sadhvis within the right-wing Hindu nationalist discourse in India. Dasgupta calls attention to the role of religion in gendered identity formation and political activism of the female ascetics in reference to the project of Hindutva in contemporary India. Ignoring disciplinary divisions, this book cuts through history, politics, and gender studies to explore an authentic perspective of asceticism, activism, spirituality, and masculinity as these have been constituted in the representation of female ascetics within the Hindutva movement"--…mehr

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"Ascetics as Activists examines the position of the female ascetics or sadhvis within the right-wing Hindu nationalist discourse in India. Dasgupta calls attention to the role of religion in gendered identity formation and political activism of the female ascetics in reference to the project of Hindutva in contemporary India. Ignoring disciplinary divisions, this book cuts through history, politics, and gender studies to explore an authentic perspective of asceticism, activism, spirituality, and masculinity as these have been constituted in the representation of female ascetics within the Hindutva movement"--
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Autorenporträt
Koushiki Dasgupta is the Chair Professor of History, Vidyasagar University, India. She is the author of Sadhus in Indian Politics, (2021), Electoral Politics and Hindu Nationalism in India (2020) , and Muslim Businessmen and Partition: A Bengali Experience ( 2016). Her research interests include religion, politics and gender issues.