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Author:   Daniela Berti ,  Nicolas Jaoul ,  Pralay Kanungo
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138659957

ISBN 10:   1138659959
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   21 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Plates -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction/Daniela Berti -- PART I: Hindutva-affi liated Organisations and Local Mediators -- 1. Music and Politics in Kerala: Hindu Nationalists Versus Marxists/Christine -- 2. The Local Enactment of Hindutva: Writing Stories on Local Gods in Himachal Pradesh/Daniela Berti -- 3. Casting Community, Culture and Faith: Hindutva’s Entrenchment in Arunachal Pradesh/Pralay Kanungo -- 4. The Shakha and the Mandal: The Shiv Sena, ‘Popular Culture’ and People’s Associations in Mumbai/Djallal G. -- PART II: Convergence, Gurus and Sects -- 5. Health, Yoga and the Nation: Dr Karandikar and the Yoga Therapy Centre, Pune, Maharashtra/Anne-Cécile Hoyez -- 6. On the Margins of Hindutva: The Krishna Pranâmî Sect in Nepal and India/Gérard Toffin -- 7. In the Image of Jhulelal: Sindhi Hindus, Humanitarian Action and Hindu Nationalism/Frédérique Pagani -- 8. Social Services, Muscular Hinduism and Implicit Militancy in West Bengal: The Case of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha/Raphaël Voix -- PART III: Entrenchment amidst -- 9. The Symbolism of Krishna in Uttar Pradesh Politics in the 1990s: Understanding the ‘Normalisation’ of Hindutva in North India/Lucia Michelutti -- 10. Casting the ‘Sweepers’: Local Politics of Sanskritisation, Caste and Labour/Nicolas Jaoul -- 11. The Boa and its Petty Enemy: Contemporary Relationships between Hindu Nationalists and the Sikhs/Christine Moliner -- About the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

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Daniela Berti is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, and affiliated to the Centre for Himalayan Studies, Villejuif, France. Nicolas Jaoul is Researcher, Anthropology, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, attached to the Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Enjeux Sociaux (IRIS, EHESS), Paris and affiliated to the Centre d’Etudes de l’Asie du Sud, Paris. Pralay Kanungo is Professor, Centre for Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

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