Greater India Experiment - Hindutva and the Northeast

"With unheard of access to the Sangh Parivar (a family of organizations comprising the Hindu right), The Greater India Experiment explores the ideologies at play in this notorious group, documenting their quotidian activities. Longkumer argues that it is here that we truly see the full picture of the Sangh movement, not through the politicized lens of high-profile campaigns or activities, but through the gradual process of influencing social and cultural politics, and the eventual entanglement of the Hindu Right in the everyday politics of the region"--

List of contents

2. The Northeast and Time's Relentless Melt

3. Hindutva Worldings: Whose Way of Life?

4. Prophecy and the Hindu State

5. Christian Hindu and Nationalizing Hindutva

6. Rani Gaidinliu: A Semiotic Challenge to the Nation-State

7. Citizenship, Elections, and the Bharatiya Janata Party

8. Hindutva Becoming and the Greater India Experiment

About the author

Arkotong Longkumer is Senior Lecturer in Modern Asia at the University of Edinburgh, and Senior Research Fellow at the Kohima Institute, Nagaland. He is the co-author of Indigenous Religion(s): Local Grounds, Global Networks (2020), and co-editor of Neo-Hindutva (2019).

Product details

• Authors: Arkotong Longkumer
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781503613461
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-1346-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: South Asia in Motion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Asiatische Geschichte, Indischer Subkontinent, History - General History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia