Fascinating Hindutva :
Badri Narayan, 1965-
Fascinating Hindutva : saffron politics and Dalit mobilisation / Badri Narayan. - Los Angeles : SAGE, 2009. - xiii, 195 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
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.
9788178299068 (PB) 8178299062 (PB)
2008048185
Bharatiya Janata Party.
Dalits--Political activity--India.
Dalits--Social conditions.--India
DS422.C3 / B244 2009
324.254/05
Fascinating Hindutva : saffron politics and Dalit mobilisation / Badri Narayan. - Los Angeles : SAGE, 2009. - xiii, 195 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
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.
9788178299068 (PB) 8178299062 (PB)
2008048185
Bharatiya Janata Party.
Dalits--Political activity--India.
Dalits--Social conditions.--India
DS422.C3 / B244 2009
324.254/05