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Basu, Manisha,

The rhetoric of Hindu India : language and urban nationalism / Manisha Basu. - xiii, 217 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-214) and index.

Introductory matters : the strange case of secular India -- Time's victims in a second republic : new histories, new temporalities -- To make free and let die : the economics of metropolitan Hindutva -- A power over life and rebirth : V.D. Savarkar and the essentials of Hindutva -- Between death and redemption : Hindu India and its antique others -- The after-life of Indian writing in English : telematic managers, journalistic mantras.

"Examines the rise of the urban right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology in India called Hindutva between 1984 and 2004"--

9781107149878 (hardback) 595.00


Hindutva.
Hinduism and politics--India.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--India.
Nationalism--Political aspects--India.


India--Politics and government--1977-

320.540954 / B327r