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The representation of the Muslims as threatening to India's body politic is central to the Hindu nationalist project of organizing a political movement and normalizing anti-minority violence. Adopting a critical ethnographic approach, this book identifies the poetics and politics of fear and violence engendered within Hindu nationalism.
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"How is fear created, spread and updated? In this revelatory book, Dibyesh Anand takes us deep into the multi-stranded fear-engendering strategies employed by India's contemporary Hindu nationalists. With a sharp feminist eye for exactly how both femininities and masculinities are wielded, he provides lessons for all of us concerned about the mobilization of ethnic hatreds and militarized nationalisms." - Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War"Dibyesh Anand s book offers a sustained, innovative analysis of a central aspect of Hindu nationalist collective imaginings: the production of anti-Other fear. It is a must-read for anyone interested in right-wing social and political movements and in the local-to-transnational conflict in which they are engaged."
- Paola Bacchetta, professor, University of California, Berkeley
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DIBYESH ANAND is Reader in International Relations at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear
Authors: Dibyesh Anand
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230339545
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Dibyesh Anand 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60385-1Published: 26 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37190-7Published: 26 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-33954-5Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 197
Topics: Political Sociology, Asian Politics, Political Science, International Relations, Social Aspects of Religion, Political Theory