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Hindutva As Political Monotheism
Engelsk Hardback
Hindutva As Political Monotheism
Engelsk Hardback

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In Hindutva as Political Monotheism, Anustup Basu offers a genealogical study of Hindutva-Hindu right-wing nationalism-to illustrate the significance of Western anthropology and political theory to the idea of India as a Hindu nation. Connecting Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt's notion of political theology to traditional theorems of Hindu sovereignty and nationhood, Basu demonstrates how Western and Indian theorists subsumed a vast array of polytheistic, pantheistic, and henotheistic cults featuring millions of gods into a singular edifice of faith. Basu exposes the purported “Hindu Nation” as itself an orientalist vision by analyzing three crucial moments: European anthropologists’ and Indian intellectuals’ invention of a unified Hinduism during the long nineteenth century; Indian ideologues’ adoption of ethnoreligious nationalism in pursuit of a single Hindu way of life in the twentieth century; and the transformations of this project in the era of finance capital, Bollywood, and new media. Arguing that Hindutva aligns with Enlightenment notions of nationalism, Basu foregrounds its significance not just to Narendra Modi's right-wing, anti-Muslim government but also to mainstream Indian nationalism and its credo of secularism and tolerance.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478009887
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478009888
Udg. Dato:
25 sep 2020
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
159mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
25 sep 2020
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