Contesting the Nation
Subtitle: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India (South Asia Seminar Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: June 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780812233544
Subjects: Hinduism; Political ideologies; Sociology, Social Studies; Politics and government; India; Contemporary Politics - India; Religion, Politics & State; Politics / Current Events; Politics - Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Muslims; Asia - India; Political Ideologies - General; Religious aspects; Communalism; Hinduism and politics; Hindus; Nationalism
First sentence: ON OCTOBER 15, 1990, I WAS STAYING in upper middle-class South Delhi, awaiting a flight south to Madras, when Rama's chariot procession (Rath Yatra) came through town.