Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation
Fascinating Hindutva examines how, aided by other Hindutva forces like RSS and VHP, the strategies of BJP for mobilizing dalits rests on reinterpreting their Hindu past and unifying them under the metanarrative of Hindutva. It is an exploration of the fascinating tactics used by the Hindutva forces to politically mobilize individual dalit castes like the Nishads, Musahars and Dusadhs by saffronising their heroes.
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Fascinating Hindutva examines how, aided by other Hindutva forces like RSS and VHP, the strategies of BJP for mobilizing dalits rests on reinterpreting their Hindu past and unifying them under the metanarrative of Hindutva. It is an exploration of the fascinating tactics used by the Hindutva forces to politically mobilize individual dalit castes like the Nishads, Musahars and Dusadhs by saffronising their heroes.
List of FiguresIntroduction Pastness and Politics 11 Saffron Imagining of the Local: A Communal Map of an Indian Village 412 Exploring Dalit Militia: Local Cultures and Communal Politics 583 Making of a Warring Hero: Hindutva Politics of Memory and Forgetting 804 Creating Popular Politics: Caste Histories and BJP's Electoral Discourse 1015 Legend War: Mapping the Political Mobilisation of the Nishads 1166 The Politics of Cultural Resources: The Mushahars of North India 1377 Saffronisation of a Dalit Hero: The Story of Salhes of North Bihar 1588 The Path Traversed and the Way Ahead 175Bibliography 184Index 190About the Author 195
