... prepared to organize and unleash their dependents and the dependents were prepared to follow. Access to benefits determined their responses. Raamrahimnagar—the name is a composite of a Hindu god and an Arabic name for god—has earned a national reputation as a neighborhood where local Hindu and Muslim...

...Manu Bhagavan Abstract In the early twentieth century, Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, was a philosophy premised on exclusivist notions of “nation-ness” and “nation-state-ness.” India, proponents claimed, had since the earliest times been the pitrabhumi and the punyabhumi of Hindus—their fatherland...

...Rina Verma Williams Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism . By Banu Subramaniam . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2019 . 312 pp. ISBN: 9780295745589 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Banu Subramaniam's book Holy...

...Sumit Ganguly Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How the RSS Reshaped India . By Walter Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle . London : C. Hurst and Company , 2019 . xxiv, 405 pp. ISBN: 9781787380257 . India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy . By Madhav...

...Michael Schied Hindu Nationalism and the Language of Politics in Late Colonial India . By William Gould . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press , 2004 . 302 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 778 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N...

...Kenneth W. Jones Hindu Nationalism and Indian Politics: Origins and Development of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh . By Bruce Graham . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1991 . xii , 283 pp. $44.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...C. Christine Fair Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy . By Christophe Jaffrelot . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2021 . 656 pp. ISBN: 9780691206806 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Christophe...

... of landownership, cultivation, and liquor sale. Because of this specificity, Froerer's analysis will serve as an important touchstone for other studies of the diffusion of Hindu nationalism in rural areas with different political and economic dynamics. In addition to this scholarly relevance, Religious Division...

...Howard Spodek Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat . By Ornit Shani . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2007 . xiv , 215 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 As a result...

...Leela Fernandes Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism . By Tanika Sarkar . London : Hurst , 2001 . viii , 290 pp. £25.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 683 struggles to achieve...

... Service, Rutgers University Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform. By CHARLES H. HEIMSATH. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1964. xiii, 379. Appendixes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $8.50. Many of those responsible for course work in modern Indian history have surely shared Professor...

...James F. Fisher Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal . Edited by David N. Gellner , Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka , and John Whelpton . Studies in Anthropology and History...

..., as they saw Hindu social reform as the key to making nation and citizen. Reform proposals drew from the modern Western valuation of the nuclear family, and from Hindu traditions that were reformed to meet standards of modernity. As Hindu nationalists and other conservatives defended lineage authority...

...Bert F. Hoselitz Papers on National Income and Allied Topics; Vol. II . Edited by V. K. R. V. Rao , S. R. Sen , M. V. Divatia , and Uma Datta . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1962 . $8.00. Hindu Culture; Economic Development and Economic Planning in India; A Collection...

... might tackle other historical events that help account for the development of an almost exclusively Hindu tradition out of what once was a truly syncretic movement. ANNE HARDGROVE University of Michigan Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India. By PETER VAN DER VEER. Berkeley: University...

...Kathryn Hansen The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bhāratendu Hariśchandra and Nineteenth-century Banaras . By Vasudha Dalmia . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1996 . xii, 490 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 1194 THE JOURNAL...

...Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav Abstract Lala Lajpat Rai is increasingly viewed in historiography as a “Hindu nationalist” with a strong affinity with Savarkarite Hindutva. This article demonstrates that during the Khilafat movement, Lajpat Rai articulated a secular Indian nationalism that was sensitive...

... by Robert Putnam—the conditions for transnational community building and commerce. The value of spiritual capital is gauged against the backdrop defined by the rise of Hindu nationalism and a new economic agenda in India since the end of the 1980s. Parallel to these developments, Indonesian Hindus began...

... in Burma (all reprinted in the Hindi women's periodical Stri Darpan ), she also used the ethnography to call for the social and political mobilization of Burmese and Indian women. Nehru revisited the relationship between India and Burma in the gendered and elite terms of Indian (mostly Hindu) nationalism...

... : Arnold Publishers . Sanjib Baruah . 1999 . India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality , Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . Amrita. Basu 1997 . “Hindu Nationalism and Indian Democracy.” Paper presented at the conference on “India at Fifty,” October 31...