Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva (eBook)

Janaki Bakhle (Autor)

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2024
520 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25148-6 (ISBN)

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A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalismVinayak Damodar Savarkar (18831966) was an intellectual, ideologue, and anticolonial nationalist leader in India's struggle for independence from British colonial rule, one whose anti-Muslim writings exploited India's tensions in pursuit of Hindu majority rule. Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva is the first comprehensive intellectual history of one of the most contentious political thinkers of the twentieth century.Janaki Bakhle examines the full range of Savarkar's voluminous writings in his native language of Marathi, from political and historical works to poetry, essays, and speeches. She reveals the complexities in the various positions he took as a champion of the beleaguered Hindu community, an anticaste progressive, an erudite if polemical historian, a pioneering advocate for women's dignity, and a patriotic poet. This critical examination of Savarkar's thought shows that Hindutva is as much about the aesthetic experiences that have been attached to the idea of India itself as it is a militant political program that has targeted the Muslim community in pursuit of power in postcolonial India.By bringing to light the many legends surrounding Savarkar, Bakhle shows how this figure from a provincial locality in colonial India rose to world-historical importance. Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva also uncovers the vast hagiographic literature that has kept alive the myth of Savarkar as a uniquely brave, brilliant, and learned revolutionary leader of the Hindu nation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.2.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Brahminism • Essentials of Hindutva • ethnic nationalism • Gandhi • Gandhi and Savarkar • Hindu community • Hindu fundamentalism • Hindu nationalism • Hindutva • Maharashtra and Hindu nationalism • Marathi nationalism • Muslim Community • Rightwing Hindu nationalism • Savarkar • Savarkar and Caste • Savarkar and fascism • Savarkar and Hindutva • Savarkar and Muslims • Savarkar biography • Territorial fundamentalism • TILAK • Tilak and Savarkar • Zionism and Hindutva
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25148-7 / 0691251487
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25148-6 / 9780691251486