Political Hinduism

The Religious Imagination in Public Spheres
Herausgeber: Lal, Vinay

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume addresses issues of tremendous topical relevance: the transmission of Hinduism to the United States, Gandhi's religious politics and secularism, analysis of 'Vande Mataram' and its immensely rich history, popular patriotism in Hindi cinema, and much more.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 148mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780198064183
• ISBN-10: 0198064187
• Artikelnr.: 32308621

Autorenporträt

Vinay Lal is Associate Professor of history at UCLA since 1993, and Director of the University of California Education Abroad Program (India), 2007?9. His previous books include Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (Pluto Press, 2002); The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (OUP, 2003); Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi: Essays on Indian History and Culture (Penguin, 2005); Introducing Hinduism (Icon Books, 2005); and The Other Indians: A Political and Cultural History of South Asians in America (HarperCollins, 2008). He has also co-edited (with Ashis Nandy) Fingerprinting Popular Culture: The Mythic and the Iconic in Indian Cinema (OUP, 2006).