Presenting the Past Anxious History and Ancient Future in Hindutva India
8 "Presenting" the Past dominated the Ayodhya action and the ensuing national debate on secu- larism. Goebbels preferred "black" ...
Introduction 9 neighboring countries, it is not analyzed here, as our focus is the politics of the Sangh Parivar. Historically s ...
10 "Presenting" the Past Hindutva history for a closer analysis, we will probe if there is any con- nection among the national h ...
Introduction^11 people, political-socialization processes mainly comprise cultural story- telling, politicians' public speeches, ...
12 "Presenting" the Past conscious history and backward-looking future, the civil society comes up with corresponding social res ...
Introduction 13 Thus we look at the religious, cultural, sociological, and ideological dimensions of the Hindutva historiographi ...
14 "Presenting" the Past As Barrington Moore Jr. points out, neutrality is, after all, an impossibil- ity, because any simple st ...
Introduction 15 Madhu Limaye, "We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us," Hindu, 13 Decem- ber 1992. Sandy Gordon, "Indian Security ...
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CHAPTER 1 Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" The philosophical underpinnings of the Enlightenment, the political ...
18 "Presenting" the Past activities and beliefs of particular instruments, such as warfare (Charles Tilly), nationalist design ( ...
Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" 19 ing to Smith, the role of the intelligentsia is far more circumscribed tha ...
20 "Presenting" the Past Quoting Durkheim and Mauss, Bruce Lincoln posits that "society is constructed from nothing so much as f ...
Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" 21 machination and to restore the excluded, having beaten down the walls of t ...
22 "Presenting" the Past humiliation commonly suffered at the hands of the colonizer in the form of racism, economic exploitatio ...
Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" 23 tured with the native traditions. When the Age of Consent Bill of 1891 pro ...
(^24) "Presenting" the Past away all our past and had entered into the great arena of violence, if we had done all these things, ...
Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" 25 ular, liberal democracy. However, only the democratic politics attained th ...
26 "Presenting" the Past establish rapport with this cultural stream to be part of the Indian culture. The Gandhian universalist ...
Rambhakts: Defining "Us" and Depicting "Our Story" 27 Congress and advised Muslims to keep aloof from it.^38 Likewise, Jinnah, w ...
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