Presenting the Past Anxious History and Ancient Future in Hindutva India

168 "Presenting" the Past inspired spiritual quest is not politically motivated communalism. The Indian civil society, to some e ...

Ramraksha: Ram-ifying the Society and Modi-fying the State 169 Popular Memory Group, "Popular Memory: Theory, Politics, Method, ...

170 "Presenting" the Past Dipak Malik, "Three Riots in Varanasi, 1989-90 to 1992," South Asia Bulletin 14, no. 1 (1994), p. 55. ...

Ramraksha: Ram-ifying the Society and Modi-fying the State 171 popularity in the local elections. The Janata Dal and the Congres ...

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Conclusions As a prominent "sign of the modern," and hence irrevocably linked to the nation-state, history has been implicated a ...

174 Conclusions The late-nineteenth-century nationalism contested the colonial represen- tations of Indians as "unmanly, disorga ...

Conclusions 175 all stand to gain from the Western understanding of secularism in vary- ing measures. Any problematization of th ...

176 Conclusions that through opportunism and reactionary resurgence. Taken aback by the Islamic fanaticism growing rapidly aroun ...

Conclusions 177 Goebbels's principles of propaganda in manipulating these popular sym- bols and sentiments to promote their poli ...

178 Conclusions favor all religions equally; however, the state's reforming the personal laws of only the majority community can ...

Conclusions 179 This "truth and nonviolence" is nothing but the "passion for the service of the suppressed classes," the childre ...

180 Conclusions Negating the claim that Hindu-Muslim or Hindu-Sikh conflicts are primordial forces that happen outside history a ...

Conclusions 181 films and videos, arts and performances, campaign strategies, collective memories, stories about the past, polit ...

182 Conclusions with which we might have to learn to coexist." See Mark Juergensmeyer, "Can We Live with Religious Nationalism?" ...

Conclusions 183 Quoted in ibid., p. 12. T. K. John, "Theology of Liberation and Gandhian Praxis: A Social Spiritual- ity for In ...

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Glossary abhishek anointing adharma nonrighteousness ahimsa nonviolence Akhand Bharat Undivided (or Greater) India akhyana drama ...

186 Glossary gathas songs ghazi victor over (non-Muslim) unbelievers Hindusthan region of Hindu; India Hindutva Hindu qualities; ...

Glossary 187 raksha to protect rakshasas demons Ramarajya state of Ram Ramayana a Hindu epic (Struggle of Ram) Rambaan Ram panac ...