Fascinating Hindutva: saffron politics and Dalit mobilisation/
Narayan, Badri
Fascinating Hindutva: saffron politics and Dalit mobilisation/ Badri Narayan - New Delhi: SAGE, 2008. - xiii, 195 p.
Introduction : pastness and politics --
Saffron imagining of the local : a communal map of an Indian village --
Exploring Dalit militia : local cultures and communal politics --
Making of a warring hero : Hindutva politics of memory and forgetting --
Creating popular politics : caste histories and BJP's electoral discourse --
Legend war : mapping the political mobilisation of the Nishads --
The politics of cultural resources : the Mushahars of North India --
Saffronisation of a Dalit hero : the story of Salhes of North Bihar --
The path traversed and the way ahead.
9788132101055
Dalits--Political activity
Dalits--Social conditions
Bharatiya Janata Party
Hinduism and politics
Fascinating Hindutva: saffron politics and Dalit mobilisation/ Badri Narayan - New Delhi: SAGE, 2008. - xiii, 195 p.
Introduction : pastness and politics --
Saffron imagining of the local : a communal map of an Indian village --
Exploring Dalit militia : local cultures and communal politics --
Making of a warring hero : Hindutva politics of memory and forgetting --
Creating popular politics : caste histories and BJP's electoral discourse --
Legend war : mapping the political mobilisation of the Nishads --
The politics of cultural resources : the Mushahars of North India --
Saffronisation of a Dalit hero : the story of Salhes of North Bihar --
The path traversed and the way ahead.
9788132101055
Dalits--Political activity
Dalits--Social conditions
Bharatiya Janata Party
Hinduism and politics