The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India / Edition 1

by Christophe Jaffrelot

Overview

A detailed account of the Hindu nationalist movement in India since the 1920s arguing that political uneasiness, created by real and imagined threats of colonialism and the presence of minority groups, paved the way for militant Hinduism on the Indian subcontinent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231103350
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	09/10/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	0.76(w) x 5.50(h) x 8.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Christophe Jaffrelot is director of the Centre d'Etudes et Recherches Internationales (CERI), part of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris. He is the author of India's Silent Revolution.

What People are Saying About This

Walter Andersen

This is the most systematic study I have seen on the topic of Hindu nationalism, a movement that has grown rapidly over the past decade and now poses a challenge to India's secular government.... For the expert on South Asia, this book is an absolute must.

— Walter Andersen, author of The Brotherhood in Saffron: A Study of Hindu Revivalism

Editorial Reviews

The most exhaustive book on Hindu nationalism.... A scholarly tour de force.

New York Review of Books

This is the most systematic study I have seen on the topic of Hindu nationalism, a movement that has grown rapidly over the past decade and now poses a challenge to India's secular government. . . . For the expert on South Asia, this book is an absolute must.

Walter Andersen

Offers a detailed account of the Hindu nationalist movement in India since the 1920s, exploring how rapid changes in the political, social, and economic climate have paved the way for the growth of the primary arm of Hindu nationalism, a paramilitary-style group known as the RSS, together with its political offshoots. Looks at party building at the local level, and argues that the ideology of the movement has less to do with Hindu philosophy than with ethnic nationalism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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