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Neo-Hindutva: Evolving Forms, Spaces, and Expressions of Hindu Nationalism book cover

1st Edition

Neo-Hindutva Evolving Forms, Spaces, and Expressions of Hindu Nationalism

Edited By Edward Anderson, Arkotong Longkumer Copyright 2020
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge
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Neo-Hindutva explores the recent proliferation and evolution of Hindu nationalism – the assertive majoritarian, right-wing ideology that is transforming contemporary India. This volume develops and expands on the idea of ‘neo-Hindutva’ –– Hindu nationalist ideology which is evolving and shifting in new, surprising, and significant ways, requiring a reassessment and reframing of... Read more

1. Introduction: ‘Neo-Hindutva’: evolving forms, spaces, and expressions of Hindu nationalism

Edward Anderson and Arkotong Longkumer

2. ‘Court’ing Hindu nationalism: law and the rise of modern Hindutva

Saumya Saxena

3. ‘Nagas can’t sit lotus style’: Baba Ramdev, Patanjali, and Neo-Hindutva

Arkotong Longkumer

4. Awakening Hindu nationalism through yoga: Swami Ramdev and the Bharat Swabhiman movement

Bhuvi Gupta and Jacob Copeman

5. Authority, ethics and service (seva) amongst Hindu nationalists in India’s assertive margins

Ketan Alder

6. Neo-Hindutva affective economies: feelings of pride and offense among Surinamese Hindus in the Netherlands

Priya Swamy

7. Enterprise Hindutva and social media in urban India

Sahana Udupa

8. Hindu nationalism and the ‘saffronisation of the public sphere’: an interview with Christophe Jaffrelot

Edward Anderson and Christophe Jaffrelot

9. What is neo- about neo-Hindutva?

Deepa S. Reddy

Biography

Edward Anderson is the Smuts Research Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is based at the Centre of South Asian Studies, in the Department of Politics and International Studies, and at Trinity College. From October 2019 he will be Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich.





Arkotong Longkumer is an Anthropologist who teaches Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He is the author of Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging: The Heraka Movement of Northeast India (2010). He is currently finishing a book on Hindu nationalism and indigenous peoples in Northeast India.

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