Description
The three essays in this volume, focussing respectively on the international, national and regional aspects of Hindutva, provide three successive pictures of Hindutva, each, as it were, closer up than the one before, each probing progressively deeper into its dynamics. They analyse the structural basis, historical roots and political entrenchment of Hindutva, and assess the size of the task before the forces who oppose it.
CONTENTS
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
- A Field Guide to Rough Beasts: The Right Politics to Come
- Culturalism, Hindutva and the Contemporary Bourgeoisie
- Hindutva’s Gujarat: The Image of India’s Future?
Cover: The Saffron Wave (1991) oil on canvas, by B.V. Suresh. Collection: Devinder Sahney, Mumbai.
Radhika Desai
Dr. Radhika Desai teaches politics at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of ‘Intellectuals and Socialism: Social Democrats and the British Labour Party’, which was nominated “Book of the Month” by New Statesman and Society. Among other things, she is currently working on a book on the rise of Hindutva.
Website: https://radhikadesai.wordpress.com
