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Fascinating Hindutva : saffron politics and Dalit mobilisation / Badri Narayan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2009.Description: xiii, 195 p. : ill., mapISBN:
  • 9788178299068 (PB)
  • 8178299062 (PB)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.5509 NAR
Contents:
Introduction : pastness and politics -- Saffron imagining of the local : a communal map of an Indian village -- Exploring Dalit militia : local cultures and communal politics -- Making of a warring hero : Hindutva politics of memory and forgetting -- Creating popular politics : caste histories and BJP's electoral discourse -- Legend war : mapping the political mobilisation of the Nishads -- The politics of cultural resources : the Mushahars of North India -- Saffronisation of a Dalit hero : the story of Salhes of North Bihar -- The path traversed and the way ahead.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-189) and index.

Introduction : pastness and politics -- Saffron imagining of the local : a communal map of an Indian village -- Exploring Dalit militia : local cultures and communal politics -- Making of a warring hero : Hindutva politics of memory and forgetting -- Creating popular politics : caste histories and BJP's electoral discourse -- Legend war : mapping the political mobilisation of the Nishads -- The politics of cultural resources : the Mushahars of North India -- Saffronisation of a Dalit hero : the story of Salhes of North Bihar -- The path traversed and the way ahead.

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