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Hindutva as Political Monotheism
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English
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2020
About this book
In this genealogy of Hindu right-wing nationalism, Anustup Basu connects Carl Schmitt's notion of political theology to traditional theorems of Hindu sovereignty and nationhood, illustrating how Western and Indian theorists imagined a single Hindu political and religious people.
Author / Editor information
Anustup Basu is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of Bollywood in the Age of New Media: The Geo-televisual Aesthetic.
Reviews
“Hindutva as Political Monotheism is an original, important book, brilliant in its juxtaposition of major strands of European Enlightenment thought and Indian nationalist thought.”
-- Peter van der Veer, author of The Value of Comparison
“A project of impressive intellectual scope and reach, based on erudition across a number of fields and archives. Hindutva as Political Monotheism is a much-awaited and timely study of Hindu nationalism that both extends the scope of well-worn historical terrain and reconfigures it through an utterly fresh conceptual lens. Given the present attempt to transform India’s democratic republic into a Hindu state, it could not have come at a more appropriate time. It will be an invaluable aid in understanding the contemporary situation in historical terms.”
-- Aamir Mufti, author of Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures
"A powerful, erudite, and timely study of the historical formations and contemporary manifestations of Hindu nationalism in India.... The laudable interdisciplinarity of the book and its rich archive of literature, film, and new media provide compelling and diverse entry points for a wide range of readers.”
-- Manav Ratti South Asian Review
“Basu’s monograph is a path-breaking attempt to trace [Hindutva’s] genealogy as a political monotheism.... Hindutva is an eclectic and multidimensional work that makes major interventions in multiple knowledge-fields.”
-- Amit R. Baishya Boundary 2
“Anustup Basu’s monograph, Hindutva as Political Monotheism, presents a hitherto underutilized lens of analysis. The book extends the works of political theorist Carl Schmitt on the monotheistic imperative found in the European theorizations of religious and ethnocentric nationhood, to India’s history with ethnonationalism. . . . [It] does an excellent job of tracing [Hindutva’s] origins.”
-- Iman Fathima Sheik Abdullah Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society
“Anustup Basu takes a researcher’s perspective and approaches the topic with academic rigor and passion, thereby contributing immensely to the study of the subject of Hindutva. . . . Elaborately designed, the text invites readers to delve deeper into the sociopolitical, religious, and cultural environment of contemporary India and with greater awareness address and encounter the fascistic structures of Hindutva 2.0.”
-- Swapna Gopinath Cultural Politics
"An original and erudite book, Hindutva as Political Monotheism is a tour de force in critical interpretation: it constructs an intellectual genealogy of Hindu religious philosophy, tracking its steady politicization from the late nineteenth century to the present-day."
-- Bishnupriya Ghosh Boundary 2
"[Hindutva as Political Monotheism] can be undoubtedly considered one of the finest works on the history of animals in South Asia."
-- Mriganka Mukhopadhyay Religious Studies Review
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. Questions Concerning the Hindu Political
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2. The Hindu Nation as Organism
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3. The Indian Monotheism
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4. Hindutva 2.0 as Advertised Monotheism
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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