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Fascinating Hindutva : saffron politics and Dalit mobilisation /
In the present socio-political scenario of India, Dalits have emerged as a major force in the electoral arena and politically mobilising them has almost become a compulsion for all political parties. Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation is a deconstruction of the fascinat...
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| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles :
SAGE,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : pastness and politics
- Saffron imagining of the local : a communal map of an Indian village
- Exploring Dalit militia : local cultures and communal politics
- Making of a warring hero : Hindutva politics of memory and forgetting
- Creating popular politics : caste histories and BJP's electoral discourse
- Legend war : mapping the political mobilisation of the Nishads
- The politics of cultural resources : the Mushahars of North India
- Saffronisation of a Dalit hero : the story of Salhes of North Bihar
- The path traversed and the way ahead.