Religion, Caste and Politics in India

includes index and biblioraphy

I. SECULARISM AT STAKE THE BIRTH AND RISE OF HINDU NATIONALISM
1. Composite culture is not multiculturalism:a study of the Indian Constituent Assembly debates 3
2. From Indian territory to Hindu bhoomi:the ethnicization of nation-state mapping in India 22
3. The invention of an ethnic nationalism 38
4. Hindu nationalism, strategic syncretism in ideology-building 54
5. The genesis and development of Hindu nationalism in the Punjab: from the Arya Samaj to the Hindu Sabha (1875-1910) 74
6. The idea of the Hindu race in the writings of Hindu nationalist ideologues in the 1920s and 1930s: a concept between two cultures 123
7. Militant Hindus and the conversion issue (1885-1990):from shuddhi to dharm parivartan: politicization and diffusion of an `invention of tradition` 144
8. The rise of Hindu nationalism and the marginalization of Muslims in India today
II. THE SANGHPARIVAR
9. The Sangh Parivar: how cohesive is this family? 189
10. Hindu nationalism and democracy 207
11. The Vishva Hindu Parishad: a nationalist but mimetic attempt at federating the Hindu sects 226
12. The BJP in Madhya Pradesh: networks, strategies and power 247
13. The Hindu nationalist movement in Delhi:from `locals` to refugees-and towards peripheral groups? 281
14. Hindu nationalism and the (not so easy) art of being outraged: the Ram Setu controversy 305
15. The Hindu nationalist reinterpretation of pilgrimage in India: the limits of yatra politics 324
III. COMMUNAL VIOLENCE
16. The politics of processions and Hindu-Muslim riots
17. The 2002 pogrom in Gujarat: the post-9/11 face of Hindu nationalist anti-Muslim violence
18. Gujarat: the meaning of Modi`s victory in 2007
IV. THE RISE OF THE LOWER CASTES
19. The plebeianization of the Indian political class
20. The changing identity of the Jats in north India: kshatriyas, kisans or backwards?
21. Sanskritization vs. ethnicization in India: changing identities and caste politics before Mandal
22. The rise of the Other Backward Classes in the Hindi belt
23. The subordinate castes` revolution
24. The impact of affirmative action in India: more political than socioeconomic
25. The Bahujan Samaj Party in north India: no longer just a Dalit party?
26. The Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh: whose party is it?
V. THE POLITICAL CULTURE (OF VOTING) IN INDIA
27. Voting in India: electoral symbols, the party system and the collective citizen
28. `Why should we vote?`: the Indian middle class and the functioning of the world`s largest democracy
29. Indian democracy: the rule of law on trial
30. India and Pakistan: interpreting the divergence of two political trajectories
VI. INDIA AND THE WORLD
31. The cardinal points of Indian foreign policy
32. The Sangh Parivar and the Hindu diaspora in the west: what kind of`long-distance nationalism`?
33. India`s Look East policy: an Asianist strategy in perspective
34. Does Europe matter to India?
35. The India-US rapprochement: state-driven or middle class-driven?