Making India Hindu
Subtitle: religion, community, and the politics of democracy in India
By: edited by David Ludden.
Contributors: Ludden, David E.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Communalism -- India.; Hinduism and politics -- India.; Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Other titles: Contesting the nation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-343) and index.
Previous ed. published as: Contesting the nation : religion, community, and the politics of democracy in India. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Ayodhya : a window on the world / David Ludden; title: The iconography of Rama's chariot / Richard H. Davis; title: Mass movement or elite conspiracy? : the puzzle of Hindu nationalism / Amrita Basu; title: Communal mobilization and changing majority in Uttar Pradesh / Zoya Hasan; title: Mass media : images, mobilization, and communalism / Victoria L. Farmer; title: Music, the media, and communal relations in north India, past and present / Peter Manuel; title: Soldier monks and militant sadhus / William R. Pinch; title: Imagining Hindurashtra : the Hindu and the Muslim in Bankim Chandra's writings / Tanika Sarkar; title: The myth of unity : colonial and national narratives / Mushirul Hasan; title: Contesting in public : colonial legacies and contemporary communalism / Sandria B. Freitag; title: Communalism and modernity / Richard G. Fox; title: Writing violence / Peter van der Veer; title: Indian nationalism and the politics of Hindutva / Sumit Sarkar.