Anustup Basu

Hindutva as Political Monotheism

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Produktbeschreibung

In this genealogy of Hindu right-wing nationalism, Anustup Basu connects Carl Schmitt's notion of political theology to traditional theorems of Hindu sovereignty and nationhood, illustrating how Western and Indian theorists imagined a single Hindu political and religious people.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781478010944
• ISBN-10: 1478010940
• Artikelnr.: 58458095

Autorenporträt

Anustup Basu is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of Bollywood in the Age of New Media: The Geo-televisual Aesthetic.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Questions Concerning the Hindu Political  11
2. The Hindu Nation as Organism  28
3. The Indian Monotheism  89
4. Hindutva 2.0 as Advertised Monotheism  150
Notes  209
Bibliography  251
Index