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| Introduction: Hindu Nationalism and Democracy in India | |
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| Hindu Nationalism and Postcolonial Trajectories of Democracy | |
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| Hindu Nationalism and the Imaginings of India | |
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| About This Book | |
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| Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in India | |
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| The Democratic Revolution | |
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| Social Antagonisms and Politics | |
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| Discourse and the Analysis of Politics | |
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| Governance and Nationalism in Colonial India | |
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| Colonial Governmentalities | |
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| India as a Cultural Nation | |
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| Competing Nationalist Discourses | |
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| Producing Citizens and Communities in Independent India | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Imagining the Hindu Nation | |
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| Ideology and the Impossibility of Identities | |
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| Objectification of Communities | |
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| Inversion of Orientalist Epistemology | |
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| Semitization of Hinduism | |
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| From Hindu Community to "Hindu Nation" | |
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| Hindutva and the "Lack" in the Hindus | |
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| The Nation as Fullness and Purity: M. S. Golwalkar | |
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| In the Gandhian Garb: Deendayal Upadhyaya and "Integral Humanism" | |
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| Constructing the "Founding Myth" | |
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| Conclusion: Hindu Nationalism and Democratic Revolution | |
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| Organizing the Hindu Nation | |
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| Culture versus Politics | |
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| The Sangh Parivar | |
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| Sevikas in Thane City | |
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| Hindu Missionaries at the Frontier | |
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| Cohesion, Leadership, and Control in the Sangh Parivar | |
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| Constituencies and Strategies of the Sangh Parivar | |
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| The "Sangha" Citadel in Pune | |
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| Lower Castes for a Higher Cause | |
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| The Sangh Parivar in the Political Field | |
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| Ambiguities of Politics | |
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| Democracy, Populism, and Governance in India in the 1980s | |
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| Populism and the Transformation of Governance | |
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| Competing Populisms | |
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| The Rise of the Other Backward Classes as a Political Identity | |
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| Caste and the Impurities of Politics | |
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| Religious Symbols in the Political Field | |
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| Muslim Minoritization | |
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| A Hegemonial Crisis | |
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| The Saffron Wave | |
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| Toward a National Hinduism | |
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| BJP as a New Beginning | |
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| Communalizing the Political Field | |
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| Patriotic Bricks | |
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| Contingencies of Electoral Politics | |
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| Opening Other Fronts | |
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| Roadside Patriotism | |
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| Ayodhya and Organized Communalism | |
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| The Demolition of Babri Masjid and After | |
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| The Disjunction of Agitational and Electoral Politics | |
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| Hindutva and Respectability | |
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| Political Imaginaries in Suburbia | |
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| After the Wave | |
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| Communal Identities at the Heart of the Nation | |
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| The Normal and the Pathological | |
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| Violence and Communal Consciousness | |
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| Communal Subjects and Political Action | |
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| Hindu Nationalism, Democracy, and Globalization | |
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| Hindu Nationalism and Governance | |
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| Hindu Nationalism and Democracy | |
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| Hindu Nationalism and Globalization | |
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| Democracy and Xenophobias in India | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |