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Hindutva as Political Monotheism (Hardcover)
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Hindutva as Political Monotheism (Hardcover)
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In Hindutva as Political Monotheism, Anustup Basu offers a
genealogical study of Hindutva-Hindu right-wing nationalism-to
illustrate the significance of Western anthropology and political
theory to the idea of India as a Hindu nation. Connecting Nazi
jurist Carl Schmitt's notion of political theology to traditional
theorems of Hindu sovereignty and nationhood, Basu demonstrates how
Western and Indian theorists subsumed a vast array of polytheistic,
pantheistic, and henotheistic cults featuring millions of gods into
a singular edifice of faith. Basu exposes the purported "Hindu
Nation" as itself an orientalist vision by analyzing three crucial
moments: European anthropologists' and Indian intellectuals'
invention of a unified Hinduism during the long nineteenth century;
Indian ideologues' adoption of ethnoreligious nationalism in
pursuit of a single Hindu way of life in the twentieth century; and
the transformations of this project in the era of finance capital,
Bollywood, and new media. Arguing that Hindutva aligns with
Enlightenment notions of nationalism, Basu foregrounds its
significance not just to Narendra Modi's right-wing, anti-Muslim
government but also to mainstream Indian nationalism and its credo
of secularism and tolerance.
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