Hindutva and Violence
V. D. Savarkar and the Essentials of History
Hindutva and Violence explores the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966), the most controversial Indian political thinker of the twentieth century and a key architect of Hindu nationalism. Examining his central claim that Hindutva is not a word but a history, the book argues that, for Savarkar, this history was not a total history, a complete history, or a narrative history. Rather, its purpose was to trace key historical events to a powerful source-the font of motivation for chief actors of the past who had turned to violence in a permanent war for Hindutva as the founding principle of a Hindu nati…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4384-8878-3
- EAN: 9781438488783
- Produktnummer: 37886066
- Verlag: State University of New York Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 475 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Vinayak Chaturvedi is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India and the editor of Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial and The Pandemic: Perspectives on Asia.
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