Nationalistes Hindous

Name: Nationalistes Hindous
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ISBN: 9780231103350

ISBN-10: 0231103352

ISBN-13: 9780231103350

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Authors: Christophe Jaffrelot

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A detailed account of the Hindu nationalist movement in India since the 1920s arguing that political uneasiness, created by real and imagined threats of colonialism and the presence of minority groups, paved the way for militant Hinduism on the Indian subcontinent.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/10/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.12" wide x 8.23" long x 1.27" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Christophe Jaffrelot is director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI). He is the author of India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Caste in North Indiaand The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics, which the New York Review of Bookshailed as "a scholarly tour de force."



Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Glossary


Introduction



Stigmatising and Emulating 'Threatening Others' - The Formation of Hindu Nationalism



The Strategy of Ethno-Religious Mobilisation and the Politics of Secularism



A Specific Party-Building Strategy: The Jana Sangh and the RSS Network



Towards Strategies of Moderation?



The Mixed Strategy: Hindu Mobilisation and Electoral Alliances



Local Cadres and Populism



The Hindu Nationalists in the 'J.P. Movement'



The Impossible Assimilation



The Contradictions of the B.J.P. and the Erosion of Secularism



The Hindu Sense of Vulnerability and The R.S.S.'s Political Offensive



The Making of a Hindu Vote?



Making a Bid for Power: The Scope and Limitations of the Hindu Mobilisation



The Paradox of the Ramjanmabhoomi Movement



The B.J.P. Held in Check in the Hindi Belt


Conclusion


Epilogue



Victims of Hindu-Muslim riots, 1986-90 (map)



Hindu-Muslim riots in India and resulting victims, 1954-93



The same information as in B. in graphic form



Performance of the Jana Sangh and the BJP in Vidhan Sabha elections, 1952 to 1991



Performance of the Jana Sangh and the BJP in Lok Sabha elections, 1952 to 1993-5



Notables and activists among Madhya Pradesh BJS and BJP MLAs by region, 1957-90



Occupations of Madhya Pradesh BJS and BJP MLAs, 1957-90



Caste- and community-based distribution of Jana Sangh and BJP MLAs in Madhya Pradesh, 1952-93



Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha election results, 1952-93 (9 maps)


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Index