Rhetoric of Hindu India - Language and Urban Nationalism

Informationen zum Autor Manisha Basu teaches in the Department of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are postcolonial theory and literatures, nationalism and philology, secularism, globalization, African literatures, literary theory and cultural studies, South Asian literatures and cultures, and language and imperialism. Klappentext This book examines the late twentieth-century rise of the urban, right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology known as metropolitan Hindutva. Zusammenfassung This book examines the late twentieth-century rise of the urban, right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology known as metropolitan Hindutva. This ideology, the book assesses, aspires to be a pan-Indian, urban form that is home to the emerging, digitally enabled, technocratic middle classes of the nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introductory matters: the strange case of secular India; 2. Time's victims in a Second Republic: new histories, new temporalities; 3. To make free and let die: the economics of metropolitan Hindutva; 4. A power over life and rebirth: V. D. Savarkar and the essentials of Hindutva; 5. Between death and redemption: Hindu India and its antique Others; 6. The afterlife of Indian writing in English: telematic managers, journalistic mantras.

Product details

• Authors: Manisha Basu, Manisha (University of Illinois Basu, Basu Manisha
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781107149878
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14987-8
• No. of pages: 227
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Nationalism, India, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Urban communities, Religious & theocratic ideologies, Urban communities / city life, Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements