Shail Mayaram

Secret Life of Another Indian Nationalism (eBook, PDF)

Transitions from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Nationalism is among the most influential ideas that has shaped the 'Metamorphoses of the Political' in the long twentieth century. 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. The books braids the following three strands together: first, a majoritarian nationalist ideology called Hindutva; second, the making of popular history as a precolonial epic is highlighted, depicting the defeat of the last Hindu Emperor by a conquering Muslim Sultan purportedly leading to eight centuries of Hindu enslavement and third, the 'reconversion' of a community by the Visva Hindu Parishad with consequences for Lived Hinduism and Indic civilisation with its complex identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108961288
• Artikelnr.: 66183971

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.