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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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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