The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics: 1925 to the 1990s : Strategies of Identity-building, Implantation and Mobilisation (with Special Reference to Central India)Although The Peaceful, Inward-Looking Doctrine Of The Hindu Religion Hardly Seems To Lend Itself To Endemic Nationalism, A Phenomenal Surge Of Militant Hinduism Has Taken Place Over The Last Ten Years In India. Indeed, The Electoral Success Of The Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (Bjp) Has Proven Beyond Doubt That These Forces Now Pose A Significant Threat To India S Secular Character. In A Historically Rich, Detailed Account Of The Hindu Nationalist Movement In India Since The 1920S, Christopher Jaffrelot Explores How Rapid Changes In The Political, Social, And Economic Climate Have Made India Fertile Soil For The Growth Of The Primary Arm Of Hindu Nationalism, A Paramilitary-Style Group Known As The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (Rss), Together With Its Political Offshoots. He Shows How The Hindu Movement Uses Religion To Enter The Political Sphere, And Argues That The Ideology They Speak For Has Less To Do With Hindu Philosophy Than With Ethnic Nationalism The Hindu Nationalist Movement And Indian Politics Makes A Major Contribution To The Study Of The Genesis And Development Of Religious Nationalism, And Is Essential Reading For Anyone Who Seeks To Comprehend The Spread Of Endemic Conflict. |
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... elections 436 An aggressive electoral campaign 436 The BJP as a national party ? The cost of being in power 13. THE PARADOX OF THE RAMJANMABHOOMI 438 446 MOVEMENT 449 Problems of division of labour 449 The BJP's difficulties as a ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THREE HINDU NATIONALIST STRATEGIES | 11 |
Priority given to the expansion of the shakha network | 64 |
THE STRATEGY OF ETHNORELIGIOUS | 80 |
The first attempt to exploit the issue of Ayodhya | 91 |
Nehru and the Hindu traditionalists | 98 |
An extremist party | 107 |
THE JANA | 114 |
The VHP and building the Hindu nation against the Other | 345 |
The attempt at Hindu mobilisation | 358 |
THE MAKING OF A HINDU VOTE? | 369 |
populism political bhakti | 383 |
the activists in the forefront | 404 |
AND RETAIN POWER | 411 |
elections | 436 |
THE PARADOX OF THE RAMJANMABHOOMI | 449 |
The Jana Sanghs Sanghathanist partybuilding pattern | 132 |
A countermodel of partybuilding | 149 |
OSCILLATION AND HYBRIDISATION | 158 |
The dual constraints of the Congress system | 159 |
From dogmatism to pragmatism? | 178 |
HINDU MOBILISATION | 193 |
Ethnoreligious mobilisation under a double | 203 |
Electoral progress and increased reliance on notables | 213 |
Electoral alliances and coalition governments | 221 |
THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE 1970s | 230 |
The central governments fight against communalism | 238 |
THE HINDU NATIONALISTS IN THE J P MOVEMENT | 255 |
THE IMPOSSIBLE ASSIMILATION | 282 |
THE CONVERGENCE OF HINDU NATIONALIST | 314 |
THE HINDU SENSE OF VULNERABILITY | 338 |
an ambivalent tactic | 464 |
The strategy of ethnoreligious mobilisation in question | 473 |
THE B J P HELD IN CHECK IN THE HINDI BELT | 482 |
The difficulty of exploiting the Ayodhya issue | 487 |
Madhya Pradesh | 494 |
The BJP in Uttar Pradesh Himachal Pradesh Rajasthan | 515 |
CONCLUSION | 522 |
EPILOGUE | 533 |
Populism and the 19945 state elections | 539 |
Will tensions emerge in the Sangh parivar? | 547 |
APPENDICES | 555 |
Performance of the Jana Sangh and the BJP in Vidhan | 558 |
Select Bibliography | 573 |
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