Fascinating Hindutva : saffron politics and Dalit mobilisation /
Badri Narayan,1965-
Los Angeles ; London : SAGE,
2009.
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.
Bharatiya Janata Party.
Dalits
Dalits