Shail Mayaram

The Secret Life of Another Indian Nationalism

Transitions from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on exclusivist Indian nationalism, and identifies its distinction from inclusivist nationalism. It highlights shifts in 'another Indian nationalism' over the last two centuries as the geopolitical context has transitioned from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana and its war on terror.

Produktdetails

• Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781108832571
• ISBN-10: 1108832571
• Artikelnr.: 60403383

Autorenporträt

Shail Mayaram is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi and Co-Director of the International Center for Advanced Study (ICAS-MP). Some of her publications include Against History, Against State: Counterperspectives from the Margins (2003); Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity (2016, 2nd edition) and Israel as the Gift of the Arabs: Letters from Tel Aviv (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
List of illustrations
Note on transliteration
1. Introduction: colonialism, orientalism, nationalism and the shaping of popular history and religion
2. James Tod and popular Indian nationalism
3. War and violence in Savarkar's view of Indian history
4. The Vishva Hindu Parishad's Fantasmagorical history
5. The politics of Vishva Hindu Parishad conversion
6. Another history of religion
7. Myth and medical pluralism as resistance to Hindu nationalism
Bibliography
Index.