Rina Verma Williams (Asso Associate Professor of Political Science

Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated: Women and Religious Nationalism in Indian Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

In Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated, Rina Verma Williams places women's participation in religious politics in India in historical and comparative perspective through a focus on the most important Hindu nationalist political parties in modern Indian history: the All-India Hindu Mahasabha and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Williams compares three critical periods to show the increasing involvement of women in Hindu nationalist politics over time, and draws on significant new data sources to construct an unmatched before-and-after view of India's watershed 2014 elections. Given that the BJP is one of the most dynamic religious/ethno-nationalist parties in the world at present, Williams' account of how it incorporated masses of women into its coalition is essential reading for scholars and students interested not just in India, but in the relationship between gender and right-wing populist politics globally.

Produktdetails

• MODERN SOUTH ASIA SERIES
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 242mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780197567210
• ISBN-10: 0197567215
• Artikelnr.: 66161203

Autorenporträt

Rina Verma Williams is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, where she is also Affiliate Faculty in Asian Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She teaches and researches in the areas of gender and identity politics; religion, law, and nationalism; democracy and politics in developing countries; and South Asian and Indian politics. She has published extensively on these topics and is especially interested in the role of the state and democracy in the social and political construction of gendered identities. Her first book, Postcolonial Politics and Personal Laws, examined how religious laws affected ethnic conflict in India.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Introduction. Women, Political Parties, and Indian Democracy
* Chapter 1. Of Histories and Numbers: Hindu Nationalist Political
Parties and Women
* Chapter 2. Women Mobilized: Three Controversies, Three Prongs of
Gendered Mobilization, 1985-1992
* Chapter 3. Of Questions and Contexts: Feminist Responses, Scholarly
Literatures, and Positionality
* Chapter 4. Women Marginalized: The All-India Hindu Mahasabha,
1915-1951
* Chapter 5. Women Incorporated: The Contemporary BJP, 2013-2016
* Chapter 6. Dénouement. "The Condition of Its Women": Women's
Political Participation and Indian Democracy
* Bibliography
* Index
* Appendix A: Interviews
* Appendix B: Manifesto Items, Coded