The Saffron Wave : : Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India / / Thomas Blom Hansen.
The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our attention to recent events in the world's largest democracy, India. Here he analyzes Indian receptivity to the right-...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1999] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Hindu Nationalismand Democracy in India
- 1. Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in India
- 2. Imagining the Hindu Nation
- 3. Organizing the Hindu Nation
- 4. Democracy, Populism, and Governance in India in the 1980s
- 5. The Saffron Wave
- 6. Communal Identities at the Heart of the Nation
- 7. Hindu Nationalism, Democracy, and Globalization
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index