The greater India experiment : Hindutva and the northeast / Arkotong Longkumer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Longkumer, Arkotong, author.

Series:

South Asia in Motion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sangh Parivar.

Hinduism and politics--India, Northeastern.

Hinduism and politics.

Hindutva--India, Northeastern.

Hindutva.

India, Northeastern--Politics and government.

India, Northeastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

The assertion that even institutions often viewed as abhorrent should be dispassionately understood motivates Arkotong Longkumer's pathbreaking ethnography of the Sangh Parivar, a family of organizations comprising the Hindu right. The Greater India Experiment counters the urge to explain away their ideas and actions as inconsequential by demonstrating their efforts to influence local politics and culture in Northeast India. Longkumer constructs a comprehensive understanding of Hindutva, an idea central to the establishment of a Hindu nation-state, by focusing on the Sangh Parivar's engagement with indigenous peoples in a region that has long resisted the "idea of India." Contextualizing their activities as a Hindutva "experiment" within the broader Indian political and cultural landscape, he ultimately paints a unique picture of the country today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

1 Arboreal Nation

2 The Northeast and Time’s Relentless Melt

3 Hindutva Worldings: Whose Way of Life?

4 Prophecy and the Hindu State

5 “Christian Hindu” and Nationalizing Hindutva

6 Rani Gaidinliu: A Semiotic Challenge to the Nation-State

7 Citizenship, Elections, and the Bharatiya Janata Party

Epilogue Hindutva Becoming and the Greater India Experiment

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503614239

1503614239

OCLC:

1224279097