"This volume examines the phenomenon of contemporary Hindu nationalism or "new Hindutva" that is presently the dominant ideological and political-electoral formation in India. There is a rich body of work on Hindu nationalism, but its main focus is on anearlier moment of insurgent movement politics in the 1980s and 1990s. In contrast to this earlier era of "Mandir politics," new Hindutva is a governance and governmental formation with considerable institutional heft that converges with wider global currents and enjoys mainstream acceptance. Contemporary Hindu nationalist politics is also significantly different, both in form and substance, from earlier versions. To understand these political forms and their implications for democratic futures, a fresh set of reflections is in order. This book approaches the phenomenon of contemporary Hindutva as an example of a democratic authoritarianism or an authoritarian populism, a politics that simultaneously advances and violates ideas and practices of popular and constitutional democracy. The volume is a collective effort in anticipatory writing that engages a particularly fraught present in order to understand its implications for democratic futures. Can we avoid the pitfalls of presentism when studying currentand recent events? Equally, can we reflect on the futures that will follow these troubled times without falling into the trap of predictive analysis? The authors offer different answers to these questions about what it means, both analytically and politically, to study new Hindutva at this particular moment in time"--
Examines the phenomenon of contemporary Hindu nationalism or new Hindutva that is presently the dominant ideological and political-electoral formation in India.
This volume examines the phenomenon of contemporary Hindu nationalism or 'new Hindutva' that is presently the dominant ideological and political-electoral formation in India. There is a rich body of work on Hindu nationalism, but its main focus is on an earlier moment of insurgent movement politics in the 1980s and 1990s. In contrast, new Hindutva is a governmental formation that converges with wider global currents and enjoys mainstream acceptance. To understand these new political forms and their implications for democratic futures, a fresh set of reflections is in order. This book approaches contemporary Hindutva as an example of a democratic authoritarianism or an authoritarian populism, a politics that simultaneously advances and violates ideas and practices of popular and constitutional democracy.
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Approaches contemporary Hindutva as an example of a democratic authoritarianism or an authoritarian populism.
List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; List of tables and images;
1.
What is New about New Hindutva? Thomas Blom Hansen and Srirupa Roy; Part I.
Rule:
2. New Hindutva Timeline: September 2013October 2020 Ashwin
Subramanian;
3. Normalizing Violence: Lessons from Hindu Nationalist India
Amrita Basu;
4. Hindutva Establishments: Right-wing Think Tanks and the
Mainstreaming of Governmental Hindutva Srirupa Roy;
5. New Hindutva and the
UP Model: An Interview with Neha Dixit and Nakul Sawhney Srirupa Roy and
Thomas Blom Hansen; Part II. Articulation:
6. The Making of a Majoritarian
Metropolis: Crowd Action, Public Order, and Communal Zoning in Calcutta
Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay;
7. Social Segregation and Everyday Hindutva in
Middle India Thomas Blom Hansen; Part III. Inclusion:
8. 'Mitakuye Oyasin
We Are All Related:' Hindutva and Indigeneity in Northeast India Arkotong
Longkumer;
9. From Castes to Nationalist Hindus: The Making of Hinduism as a
Civil Religion Suryakant Waghmore;
10. When Hindutva Performs Muslimness:
Encounters with the Muslim Rashtriya Manch Lalit Vachani; Part IV. Violence:
11. Violence after Violence: The Politics of Narrative over the Delhi Pogrom
Irfan Ahmad;
12. Development: India's Foundational Myth Mona Bhan;
13.
Pratikriya, Guilt, and Reactionary Violence Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi; About
the contributors; Index.
Thomas Blom Hansen is the Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. He founded and directed Stanford's Center for South Asia from 2010 to 2017. He is an anthropologist of political life, ethno-religious identities, violence and urban life in South Asia and Southern Africa. He has multiple theoretical and disciplinary interests from political theory and continental philosophy to psychoanalysis, comparative religion and contemporary urbanism. Srirupa Roy heads the research group 'State and Democracy' at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen. She currently serves on the steering committee and advisory board of the Inter-Asia Program at the Social Science Research Council (New York). Her research interests include nationalism and the politics of identity; comparative-historical dynamics of state formation and transformation; and democratic politics and economic liberalization.
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