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.