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How has the participation of women in Hindu nationalist politics in
India changed over time? More broadly, what has their changing
participation meant for women, Hindu nationalism, and Indian
democracy? In Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated, Rina Verma
Williams places women's participation in religious politics in
India into historical and comparative perspective through a focus
on the most important Hindu nationalist political parties in modern
Indian history: the All-India Hindu Mahasabha (HMS) and the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She compares three critical periods
to show the increasing involvement of women in Hindu nationalist
politics over time. In its formative years in the early 1900s, the
HMS marginalized women; in the 1980s, the BJP began to mobilize
them; and in the contemporary period, as the BJP returned to power
in 2014, it has incorporated women into its structures and
activities. Williams contends that the incorporation of women into
Hindu nationalist politics has significantly advanced the BJP's
electoral success compared to prior periods when women were either
marginalized or mobilized in more limited ways. For the BJP,
women's incorporation works to normalize religious nationalism in
Indian democracy; however, incorporation has not been emancipatory
for women, whose participation in BJP politics is still predicated
on traditional gender ideologies that tether women to their social
roles in the home and family. Drawing on significant new data
sources, Williams includes interviews with key BJP leaders, visual
campaign materials, and an examination of major campaign events to
construct an unmatched before-and-after view of India's watershed
2014 elections. Given that the BJP is one of the most dynamic
religious/ethno-nationalist parties in the world at present,
Williams' account of how it incorporated masses of women into its
coalition is essential reading for scholars and students interested
not just in India, but in the relationship between gender and
right-wing populist politics globally.
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