Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear ABEE

Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear by Dibyesh Anand ABEE



Hindutva in India is a chauvinist and majoritarian political ideology that conjures up the image of a peaceful Hindu Self vis-à-vis the threatening minority Other. It is porno-nationalism in its obsessive preoccupation with the predatory sexuality of the putative Muslim figure and the dangers to the integrity of the Hindu bodies. The proponents of Hindutva mobilize and generate negative stereotypes of Islam and putative Muslims to legitimize violence against actual Muslims living in India. Adopting a critical ethnographic approach, this book investigates myriad ways in which the discourses of culture, insecurity, gender, identity, and violence intersect in Hindu nationalism’s reactionary and right-wing politics of fear and imagination.

Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1 edition (October 15, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0230603858
ISBN-13: 978-0230603851