Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1 Arboreal Nation 1
5. 2 The Northeast and Time’s Relentless Melt 49
6. 3 Hindutva Worldings: Whose Way of Life? 89
7. 4 Prophecy and the Hindu State 125
8. 5 “Christian Hindu” and Nationalizing Hindutva 162
9. 6 Rani Gaidinliu: A Semiotic Challenge to the Nation-State 190
10. 7 Citizenship, Elections, and the Bharatiya Janata Party 230
11. Epilogue Hindutva Becoming and the Greater India Experiment 268
12. Notes 277
13. References 289
14. Index 311