Presenting the Past Anxious History and Ancient Future in Hindutva India

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"Presenting" the Past Anxious History and Ancient Future in Hindutva India S.P. UDAYAKUMAR PRAEGER London Wespor, connecticut ...

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Udayakumar, S. P. Presenting the past: anxious history and ancient future in ...

To the memory of Harry J. Friedman ...

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 1 Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" 17 2 Ramayana: ...

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Acknowledgments This book project emerged from my graduate-school days in Hawaii, grew with my activist work in Minnesota, and m ...

x Acknowledgments Department of Political Science and Center for South Asian Studies of the University of Hawaii, the Hawaii Com ...

Abbreviations ABVP ADM AIBMAC AICC AIMPLB ASI BJP BJS BKS BMAC BMS BSP CBI CRPF DRI HP HRD 1CHR ISI ISS MLA MP NAG NAM NCERT NDA ...

XII Abbreviations NDF National Democratic Front PAC Provincial Armed Constabulary PMO Prime Minister's Office POTA Prevention of ...

Introduction If you are a Brahman, born from a Brahman woman Then why did you not arrive by another orifice? If you are a Muslim ...

2 "Presenting" the Past rendered South Asia the most dangerous place in the world. India and Pakistan were suddenly pushed back ...

Introduction 3 tinidhi Sabha [representative committee] meeting on March 12, 2004, at Jamdoli, Rajasthan) and 2,500 pracharaks ( ...

4 "Presenting" the Past and practices.^2 Another part of the structure is crude jingoism with ludi- crous concepts such as Akhan ...

Introduction 5 Much has been written about the structural resemblance between the Sangh Parivar and the Fascist and Nazi groups ...

6 "Presenting" the Past By attaching epic qualities and rhetorical tone to history, events become atemporalized and history is m ...

Introduction 7 on no historiographical principles and methods or a moral position. Just as Goebbels used lies when they could no ...