TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hansen,Thomas Blom
TI  - The saffron wave: democracy and Hindu nationalism in modern India
SN  - 9780691006710
U1  - 294.550954 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Hinduism and politics
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - India
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-288) and index;  Hindu Nationalism and Democracy in India 
3 Hindu Nationalism and Postcolonial Trajectories of Democracy
 5 Hindu Nationalism and the Imaginings of India 
10 About This Book 
14 1. Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in India 
16 The Democratic Revolution 
20 Social Antagonisms and Politics 
22 Discourse and the Analysis of Politics 
24 Governance and Nationalism in Colonial India 
29 Colonial Governmentalities
 31 India as a Cultural Nation 
39 Competing Nationalist Discourses
 44 Producing Citizens and Communities in Independent India 
46 Conclusion 
57 2. Imagining the Hindu Nation
 60 Ideology and the Impossibility of Identities 
60 Objectification of Communities
 65 Inversion of Orientalist Epistemology
 67 Semitization of Hinduism 
71 From Hindu Community to "Hindu Nation" 
74 Hindutva and the "Lack" in the Hindus 
77 The Nation as Fullness and Purity: M. S. Golwalkar
 80 In the Gandhian Garb: Deendayal Upadhyaya and "Integral Humanism"
 84 Constructing the "Founding Myth" 
86 Conclusion: Hindu Nationalism and Democratic Revolution 
88 3. Organizing the Hindu Nation 90 Culture versus Politics 
92 The Sangh Parivar 96 Sevikas in Thane City 99 Hindu Missionaries at the Frontier 
104 Cohesion, Leadership, and Control in the Sangh Parivar 
107 Constituencies and Strategies of the Sangh Parivar
 115 The "Sangha" Citadel in Pune 
116 Lower Castes for a Higher Cause 
122 The Sangh Parivar in the Political Field
 133 Ambiguities of Politics 
126 4. Democracy, Populism, and Governance in India in the 1980s

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