Militant publics in India : physical culture and violence in the making of a modern polity
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Militant publics in India : physical culture and violence in the making of a modern polity
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Offers readers a telling glimpse of the social world in which militants are made, explaining how group physical training and technico-ethical experiments with it have created a powerful religious nationalist movement in Gujarat that has been held responsible for carrying out spectacular episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities.
Table of Contents
PART I: MODALITIES OF POLITICAL MOBILIZATION Efficacies of Political Action: Physical Culture and the Kinesthetic Politics of Gandhian Nationalism Preparatory Training and Disciplined Satyagraha in Bardoli (1928) Militant Peacekeeping and Subterfugic Violence of the Quit India Movement (1942) PART II: ELABORATING POLITICAL ITINERARIES Physical Culture, Civic Activism, and Hindu Nationalism in the City Physical Training, Ethical Discipline, and Creative Violence: Zones of Self-Mastery in the Hindu Nationalist Movement
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