A. Valiani

Militant Publics in India (eBook, PDF)

Physical Culture and Violence in the Making of a Modern Polity

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers readers a telling glimpse of the social world in which militants are made, explaining how group physical training and technico-ethical experiments with it have created a powerful religious nationalist movement in Gujarat that has been held responsible for carrying out spectacular episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230370630
• Artikelnr.: 46752563

Autorenporträt

Arafaat A. Valiani is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Oregon, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: MODALITIES OF POLITICAL MOBILIZATION   Efficacies of Political
Action: Physical Culture and the Kinesthetic Politics of Gandhian
Nationalism   Preparatory Training and Disciplined Satyagraha in Bardoli
(1928)   Militant Peacekeeping and Subterfugic Violence of the Quit India
Movement (1942)  PART II: ELABORATING POLITICAL ITINERARIES   Physical
Culture, Civic Activism, and Hindu Nationalism in the City Physical
Training, Ethical Discipline, and Creative Violence: Zones of Self-Mastery
in the Hindu Nationalist Movement