Hindutva And Violence: (Record no. 690263)

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ISBN 9788178246529
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Classification number 320.0954
Item number VIN.H
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Title Hindutva And Violence:
Sub Title V.D. Savarkar and the Politics of History/
Statement of responsibility, etc Vinayak Chaturvedi
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Place of publication Ranikhet:
Name of publisher Permanent Black,
Year of publication 2022
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Number of Pages 463p.
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Formatted contents note Hindutva and Violence tells the story of the place of history in Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s political thought. It examines Savarkar’s central claim that “Hindutva is not a word but a history.”<br/><br/>For Savarkar, this history was not a total history, a complete history, or a narrative history. Its purpose was to trace key historical events to a powerful source – the font of motivation for “chief actors” of the past who had turned to violence in a permanent war for “Hindutva” as the founding principle of a Hindu nation. At the centre of Savarkar’s writings are historical characters who not only participated in ethical warfare against invaders, imperialists, and conquerors in India, but also became Hindus in acts of violence. He argues that the discipline of history provides the only method for interpreting Hindutva.<br/><br/>This book also shows how Savarkar developed his conceptualisation of history as a way into the meaning of Hindutva. Savarkar wrote extensively – from analyses of the nineteenth century to studies of antiquity – to draw up his histories of Hindus. He also turned to a wide range of works – from the epic tradition to contemporary social theory and world history – as his way of explicating “Hindutva” and “history”.<br/><br/>By examining Savarkar’s key writings on history, historical methodology, and historiography, Vinayak Chaturvedi provides an interpretation of the philosophical underpinnings of Hindutva. He demonstrates that all critiques of Hindutva require grappling with Savarkar’s idea of history.
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Topical Term Political history
Form subdivision India
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        International Centre for Marxian Studies & Research International Centre for Marxian Studies & Research General Stacks 14/06/2023 320.0954 VIN.H CMS2986 14/06/2023 Reference