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100 _aJaffrelot, Christophe
245 _aReligion, Caste and Politics in India
260 _aDelhi
_bPrimus Books
_c2010
300 _a802p
500 _aincludes index and biblioraphy
505 2 _aI. 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?
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