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Cntesting the nation : Religion, community and the politics of democracy in India

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Publication details: Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania Press 1996Description: 346p xiISBN:
  • 9780812215854
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.954 LUD LUD
Contents:
Contents Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Inroduction. Ayodhva: A Window on the World-David Ludden Part I . Mobilizing Hinduta 1.The Iconography of Rama's Chariot-Richard.H. Davis 2.Mass Movement or Elite Conspircry? The Puzzle of Hindu Nationalism-Amrita Basu 3. Communal Mobilization and Changing Majority in Uttar Pradesh-Zoya Hasan 4. Mass Media: Images, Mobilization, and Communalism-Victoria, L. Farmer Part 2. Genealogies of Hindu and Muslim 5. Music, the Media, and Communal Relations in North India, Past and Present-Peter Manuel 6. Soldier Monks and Militant Sadhus-William R. Pinch 7. Imagining Hindurashtra: The Hindu and the Muslim in Bankim Chandra's Writings-Tanika Sarkar 8. The Myth of Unity: Colonial and National Narratives-Mushirul Hasan Part 3.Communiw and Coflict 9. Contesting in Public: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Communalism-Sandria B. Freitag 10.Communalism and Modernity-Richard G. Fox 11.Writing Violence-Peter van der Veer 12.Indian Nationalism and the Politics of Hindutva-Samit Sarkar Glossary Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Inroduction. Ayodhva: A Window on the World-David Ludden
Part I . Mobilizing Hinduta
1.The Iconography of Rama's Chariot-Richard.H. Davis 2.Mass Movement or Elite Conspircry? The Puzzle of Hindu Nationalism-Amrita Basu
3. Communal Mobilization and Changing Majority in Uttar Pradesh-Zoya Hasan
4. Mass Media: Images, Mobilization, and Communalism-Victoria, L. Farmer
Part 2. Genealogies of Hindu and Muslim
5. Music, the Media, and Communal Relations in North India, Past and Present-Peter Manuel
6. Soldier Monks and Militant Sadhus-William R. Pinch
7. Imagining Hindurashtra: The Hindu and the Muslim in Bankim Chandra's Writings-Tanika Sarkar
8. The Myth of Unity: Colonial and National Narratives-Mushirul Hasan
Part 3.Communiw and Coflict
9. Contesting in Public: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Communalism-Sandria B. Freitag
10.Communalism and Modernity-Richard G. Fox
11.Writing Violence-Peter van der Veer
12.Indian Nationalism and the Politics of Hindutva-Samit Sarkar
Glossary
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index