Messengers of Hindu Nationalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Messengers of Hindu Nationalism write by Walter Andersen. This book was released on 2019-06-15. Messengers of Hindu Nationalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a Hindu nationalist volunteer organization. It is also the parent of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Prime Minister Modi was himself a career RSS office-holder, or pracharak. This book explores how the RSS and its affiliates have benefitted from India's economic development and concurrent social dislocation, with rapid modernization creating a sense of rootlessness, disrupting traditional hierarchies, and attracting many upwardly mobile groups to the organization. India seems more willing than ever to accept the RSS's narrative of Hindu nationalism--one that seeks to assimilate Hindus into a common identity representing true 'Indianness'. Yet the RSS has also come to resemble 'the Congress system', with a socially diverse membership containing a distinct left, right and center. The organization's most significant dilemma is how to reconcile the assault from its far right on cultural issues like cow protection with condemnations of globalization from the left flank. Andersen and Damle offer an essential account of the RSS's rapid rise in recent decades, tracing how it has evolved in response to economic liberalization and assessing its long-term impact on Indian politics and society.
The RSS
The RSS - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The RSS write by Walter Andersen. This book was released on 2018-08-17. The RSS available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The RSS is the most influential cultural organization in India today, with affiliates in fields as varied as politics, education and trade. This book fundamentally addresses three key questions: Why has the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its affiliates expanded so rapidly over the past twenty-five years? How have they evolved in response to India's new socio-economic milieu? How does their rapid growth impact the country's politics and policy? With unprecedented access, Walter K. Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle lift the curtains to help us understand the inner workings of the Sangh. Backed by deep research and case studies, this book explores the evolution of the Sangh into its present form, its relationship with the ruling party, the BJP, their overseas affiliates and so much more.
Prophets Facing Backward
Prophets Facing Backward - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prophets Facing Backward write by Meera Nanda. This book was released on 2003. Prophets Facing Backward available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The leading voices in science studies have argued that modern science reflects dominant social interests of Western society. Following this logic, postmodern scholars have urged postcolonial societies to develop their own "alternative sciences" as a step towards "mental decolonization". These ideas have found a warm welcome among Hindu nationalists who came to power in India in the early 1990s. In this passionate and highly original study, Indian-born author Meera Nanda reveals how these well-meaning but ultimately misguided ideas are enabling Hindu ideologues to propagate religious myths in the guise of science and secularism. At the heart of Hindu supremacist ideology, Nanda argues, lies a postmodernist assumption: that each society has its own norms of reasonableness, logic, rules of evidence, and conception of truth, and that there is no non-arbitrary, culture-independent way to choose among these alternatives. What is being celebrated as "difference" by postmodernists, however, has more often than not been the source of mental bondage and authoritarianism in non-Western cultures. The "Vedic sciences" currently endorsed in Indian schools, colleges, and the mass media promotes the same elements of orthodox Hinduism that have for centuries deprived the vast majority of Indian people of their full humanity. By denouncing science and secularization, the left was unwittingly contributing to what Nanda calls "reactionary modernism." In contrast, Nanda points to the Dalit, or untouchable, movement as a true example of an "alternative science" that has embraced reason and modern science to challenge traditional notions of hierarchy.
‘The Mortal God'
‘The Mortal God' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ‘The Mortal God' write by Milinda Banerjee. This book was released on 2018-04-19. ‘The Mortal God' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work explores how colonial India imagined human and divine figures to battle the nature and locus of sovereignty.
The Brotherhood in Saffron
The Brotherhood in Saffron - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Brotherhood in Saffron write by Walter Anderson. This book was released on 2019-05-15. The Brotherhood in Saffron available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tracing the growth of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) since its formation in the mid-1920s, the authors examine its ideology and training system. As the first significant book on its internal workings, this book is the prequel to RSS: A View to the Inside. It was for the first time in this book that readers received a glimpse into the inner workings of the RSS. Three decades later, the RSS is one of the most significant cultural organizations in India, making this book a powerful and important read.
