Fascinating Hindutva
Subtitle: saffron politics and Dalit mobilisation
By: Badri Narayan.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9788178299068
Subjects: Bharatiya Janata Party; Dalits -- India -- Political activity; Dalits -- India -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : pastness and politics; title: Saffron imagining of the local : a communal map of an Indian village; title: Exploring Dalit militia : local cultures and communal politics; title: Making of a warring hero : Hindutva politics of memory and forgetting; title: Creating popular politics : caste histories and BJP's electoral discourse; title: Legend war : mapping the political mobilisation of the Nishads; title: The politics of cultural resources : the Mushahars of North India; title: Saffronisation of a Dalit hero : the story of Salhes of North Bihar; title: The path traversed and the way ahead.