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Hindu Nationalism, History and Identity in India - Narrating a Hindu past under the BJP (Hardcover)
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Hindu Nationalism, History and Identity in India - Narrating a Hindu past under the BJP (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History
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When the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed
power in India in 1998 as the largest party of the National
Democratic Alliance, it soon became evident that it prioritized
educational reforms. Under BJP rule, a reorganization of the
National Council of Educational Research and Training occurred, and
in 2002 four new history textbooks were published. This book
examines the new textbooks which were introduced, considering them
to be integral to the BJP's political agenda. It analyses the ways
in which their narrative and explanatory frameworks defined and
invoked Hindu identity. Employing the concept of
decontextualization, the author argues that notions of Hindu
cultural similarity were conveyed, particularly as the textbooks
paid scarce attention to social, geographical and temporal contexts
in their approaches to Indian history. The book shows that
intrinsic to the textbooks' emphasis on similarity is a systematic
backgrounding of any references to internal lines of division
within the Hindu community. Through a comparison with earlier
textbooks, it sheds light on the contested nature of history
writing in India, especially in terms of nation building and
identity construction. This issue is also highly relevant in India
today due to the electoral success of the BJP in 2014, and the
efforts of the Hindu nationalist organization Vishwa Hindu Parishad
to construct a coherent Hinduism. Arguing that the textbooks
operate according to the BJP's ideology of Hindu cultural
nationalism, this book will be of interest to academics in the
field of South Asian studies, contemporary history, the uses of
history, identity politics and Hindu nationalism.
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