The politics of cultural mobilization in India/ edited by John Zavos, Andrew Wyatt, and Vernon Hewitt - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. - viii, 268 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

De-constructing the nation: politics and cultural mobilization in India / John Zavos, Andrew Wyatt, and Vernon Hewitt --
Politics as permanent performance: the production of political authority in the locality / Thomas Blom Hansen --
Fire in the belly: the mobilization of the Ganapati festival in Maharashtra / Raminder Kaur --
Rethinking West Bengal's political stability: from party organization to local practices of politics / Glyn Williams --
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's 'Tradition of selfless service' / Gwilym Beckerlegge --
'Hindutva' as a rural planning paradigm in post-earthquake Gujarat / Edward Simpson --
Heros for our times: Assam's Lachit, India's missile man / Jayeeta Sharma --
From Indian territory to Hindu Bhoomi: the ethnicization of nation-state mapping in India / Christophe Jaffrelot --
The continuing struggle for India's Jharkhand: democracy, decentralization, and the politics of names and numbers / Stuart Corbrige --
The turn away from cultural mobilization in contemporary Tamil Nadu / Andrew Wyatt.

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Nationalism
Politics and culture
Politics and government
Hinduism and politics

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