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The saffron wave : democracy and Hindu nationalism in modern India
- Title
- The saffron wave : democracy and Hindu nationalism in modern India / Thomas Blom Hansen.
- Author
- Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-
- Publication
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1999.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- vi, 293 p.; 24 cm
- Summary
- Analyzing Indian receptivity to the right-wing Hindu nationalist party, this book also explores its political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which claims to create a policy based on "ancient" Hindu culture. The author places the BJP within the context of the larger transformation of democratic governance in India. The text goes on to argue that the Hindu nationalist movement has successfully articulated the anxieties and desires of the large and amorphous Indian middle class. Consequently, the movement has attracted privileged groups fearing encroachment on their dominant positions but also "plebian" and impoverished groups seeking recognition around a majoritarian rhetoric of cultural pride, order, and national strength. This book aims to advance the understanding of democarcy in the post-colonial world.
- Alternative Title
- Democracy and Hindu nationalism in modern India
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-288) and index.
- Contents
- Modernity, nation, and democracy in India -- Imagining the Hindu nation -- Organizing the Hindu nation -- Democracy, populism, and governance in India in the 1980s -- The saffron wave -- Communal identities at the heart of the nation -- Hindu nationalism, democracy, and globalization.
- Call Number
- JFE 99-7786
- ISBN
- 0691006709 (alk. paper)
- 9780691006703 (alk. paper)
- 0691006717 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780691006710 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98033355
- OCLC
- 40180273
- Author
- Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-
- Title
- The saffron wave : democracy and Hindu nationalism in modern India / Thomas Blom Hansen.
- Imprint
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-288) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 99-7786