Hindu nationalism and governance
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Hindu nationalism and governance
（Oxford India paperbacks）（Themes in politics series）
Oxford University Press, 2008, c2007
- : pbk.
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Description
The volume assembles the writings of some of the best-known analysts in the study of Indian politics and especially Hindu nationalist politics. It focuses on governance under the BJP in India across sectors including its political alliances, performance in elections, economic reforms and privatization, food security, ideology, revisionist histories, religion, nationalism and the media. In short, this volume constitutes a very comprehensive coverage of the various
important issues that have engaged the BJP in India. This volume appearing in the Themes in Politics series will serve to renew focus on the core ideas of Hindutva and politics and how these come to be articulated across institutions and policies. With a high profile contributor's list this volume will
be useful to students and researchers in politics, sociology and history as well as activists in organizations, policy makers, journalists and an informed lay audience.
Table of Contents
- LIST OF TABLES AND MAPS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- 1, INTRODUCTION
- 2, ASSESSING THE 'NATIONAL' EXPANSION OF HINDU NATIONALISM: THE BJP IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN INDIA
- 3, THE BJP AND THE SHIV SENA: A ROCKY MARRIAGE?
- 4, ROUTINES AND ROUTINIZATION: MOVING TOWARDS MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN MUMBAI, 2001-2
- 5, FROM SWADESHI TO GLOBALIZATION: THE BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY'S SHIFTING ECONOMIC AGENDA
- 6, THE HINDU RATE OF REFORM: PRIVATIZATION UNDER THE BJP-STILL WAITING FOR THAT BADA KADAM
- 7, SWAYED BY THE 'HUMBUG OF FINANCE': ECONOMIC POLICY UNDER THE BJP-LED GOVERNMENT
- 8, FOOD SECURITY, GOVERNANCE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE BJP
- 9, THE WORK OF THE INDO-AMERICAN HISTORIANS AND THE REWRITING OF INDIAN HISTORY
- 10, THE BJP'S INTELLECTUAL AGENDA: TEXTBOOKS AND IMAGINED HISTORY
- 11, CRUCIBLES OF HINDUTVA? V.D. SAVARKAR, THE HINDU MAHASABHA, AND THE INDIAN PRINCELY STATES
- 12, FIRE, THE BJP AND MORAL SOCIETY
- 13, THE WATER CONTROVERSY AND THE POLITICS OF HINDU NATIONALISM
- 14, RELIGION AS 'COMMODITY IMAGES': SECURING A HINDU RASHTRA
- 15, GRAND CANYON, SHAKY BRIDGE: MEDIA REVOLUTION AND THE RISE OF 'HINDU' POLITICS
- 16, MILITARIZED HINDU NATIONALISM AND THE MASS MEDIA: SHAPING A HINDUTVA PUBLIC DISCOURSE
- 17, MAKING INDIA STRONG: THE BJP-LED GOVERNMENT'S FOREIGN POLICY PERSPECTIVES
- 18, KASHMIR: A TESTING GROUND
- 19, PAKISTAN, THE BJP, AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
- 20, BANGLADESH AND THE BJP
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS.
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