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Majoritarian state : how Hindu nationalism is changing India / Angana P. Chatterji, Thomas Blom Hansen, and Christophe Jaffrelot (editors).
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Nationalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (551 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Majoritarian State traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its agenda is also pursued beyond the formal branches of government, as the new dispensation portrays conventional social hierarchies as intrinsic to Indian culture while condoning communal and caste- and gender-based violence. The contributors explore how Hindutva ideology has permeated the state apparatus and formal institutions, and how Hindutva activists exert control over civil society via vigilante groups, cultural policing and violence.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-009958-5
- 0-19-008339-5
- OCLC:
- 1105199337
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