Jaffrelot, Christophe <br/><br/>
Religion, Caste and Politics in India 

 - Delhi  Primus Books  2010 
 - 802p 
<br/><br/> includes index and biblioraphy 
<br/><br/>I. SECULARISM AT STAKE THE BIRTH AND RISE OF HINDU NATIONALISM<br/>1. Composite culture is not multiculturalism:a study of the Indian Constituent Assembly debates	3<br/>2. From Indian territory to Hindu bhoomi:the ethnicization of nation-state mapping in India	22<br/>3. The invention of an ethnic nationalism	38<br/>4. Hindu nationalism, strategic syncretism in ideology-building	54<br/>5. The genesis and development of Hindu nationalism in the Punjab: from the Arya Samaj to the Hindu Sabha (1875-1910)	74<br/>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<br/>7. Militant Hindus and the conversion issue (1885-1990):from shuddhi to dharm parivartan: politicization and diffusion of an `invention of tradition`	144<br/>8. The rise of Hindu nationalism and the marginalization of Muslims in India today	<br/>II. THE SANGHPARIVAR<br/>9. The Sangh Parivar: how cohesive is this family?	189<br/>10. Hindu nationalism and democracy	207<br/>11. The Vishva Hindu Parishad: a nationalist but mimetic attempt at federating the Hindu sects	226<br/>12. The BJP in Madhya Pradesh: networks, strategies and power	247<br/>13. The Hindu nationalist movement in Delhi:from `locals` to refugees-and towards peripheral groups?	281<br/>14. Hindu nationalism and the (not so easy) art of being outraged: the Ram Setu controversy	305<br/>15. The Hindu nationalist reinterpretation of pilgrimage in India: the limits of yatra politics	324<br/>III. COMMUNAL VIOLENCE<br/>16. The politics of processions and Hindu-Muslim riots<br/>17. The 2002 pogrom in Gujarat: the post-9/11 face of Hindu nationalist anti-Muslim violence<br/>18.  Gujarat: the meaning of Modi`s victory in 2007<br/>IV. THE RISE OF THE LOWER CASTES<br/>19.  The plebeianization of the Indian political class<br/>20.  The changing identity of the Jats in north India: kshatriyas, kisans or backwards?<br/>21.  Sanskritization vs. ethnicization in India: changing identities and caste politics before Mandal<br/>22. The rise of the Other Backward Classes in the Hindi belt<br/>23.  The subordinate castes` revolution<br/>24.  The impact of affirmative action in India: more political than socioeconomic<br/>25.  The Bahujan Samaj Party in north India: no longer just a Dalit party?<br/>26.  The Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh: whose party is it?<br/>V. THE POLITICAL CULTURE (OF VOTING) IN INDIA<br/>27. Voting in India: electoral symbols, the party system and the collective citizen<br/>28.  `Why should we vote?`: the Indian middle class and the functioning of the world`s largest democracy<br/>29. Indian democracy: the rule of law on trial<br/>30.  India and Pakistan: interpreting the divergence of two political trajectories<br/>VI. INDIA AND THE WORLD<br/>31. The cardinal points of Indian foreign policy<br/>32.  The Sangh Parivar and the Hindu diaspora in the west: what kind of`long-distance nationalism`?<br/>33. India`s Look East policy: an Asianist strategy in perspective<br/>34.  Does Europe matter to India?<br/>35.  The India-US rapprochement: state-driven or middle class-driven?<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789380607047  2250 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>R10  / J180