Hindu nationalism in india

Hindu Nationalism in India

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Hindu Nationalism and Terrorism in India Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book discusses terrorism and the rise of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and examines how this movement has become a threat to democracy in that country. ...

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Bridging Neoliberalism and Hindu Nationalism

Hindu Nationalism is not well understood outside of India, and its links to the global neoliberal trajectory have not been much explored. This importa

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Hindu Women's Property Rights in Rural India

This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant women's ability to effectuate the statutory rights to succession and assert ownership of their share

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Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere

This volume studies the emerging right-wing regime and the problematic of nationalism in India.

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Nationalism, Language, and Identity in India

This book examines linguistic nationalism in India. It focuses on the emergence of language as a marker of identity by analysing themes such as nation

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Celestial India

This book deals with the contribution of the Theosophical Society to the rise of Indian nationalism and seeks to restore it to its proper place in the

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Authoritarian Populism and Bovine Political Economy in Modi’s India

This book analyses Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism in IndiaÂ’s bovine economy and will interest scholars of SA studies, critical agrarian studies,

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Transgenders in India Taylor & Francis Ltd

This introductory volume studies the challenges faced by the transgender community in India. It traces the history of the representation of the community in Hindu texts to understand the evolution of their status within Indian society. The book looks at various themes such as the concept of establishing identity through the processes of ´coming out´ and ´transitioning’ an...

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Breaking Barriers in Post-independence India Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book looks at India of the 1950s and 60s while it was still emerging from two centuries of colonial rule and striving to come together as a nation. It critically explores the history of nationalism and identity in Northeastern India, a region with diverse ethnolinguistic communities and people, through the personal history of the first Manipuri (Meitei) direct recrui...

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Hindutva as Political Monotheism

In this genealogy of Hindu right-wing nationalism, Anustup Basu connects Carl Schmitt's notion of political theology to traditional theorems of Hindu

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Triumph of Modernism

Explores the contested history of art and nationalism in the tumultuous last decades of British rule in India. With a fascinating array of art works,

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Provincial Democracy

Tracks the history of democracy as it began to establish roots at the height of anticolonial nationalism in British India through calls for self-deter

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Blue-Skinned Gods - SJ Sindu

In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy named Kalki is born with blue skin. He believes that he is the Hindu god Vishnu and that he can perform miracles. The truth is much darker

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Bhagavad-Gita

This famous and marvellous Sanskrit poem occurs as an episode of the Mahabharata, in the sixth-or "Bhishma"-Parva of the great Hindu epic. It enjoys immense popularity and authority in India, where it is reckoned as one of the "Five Jewels," -pancharatnani- of Devanagiri literature. In plain but noble language it unfolds a philosophical system which remains to this day th...

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Blue-Skinned Gods - SJ Sindu

Anotace: In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy named Kalki is born with blue skin. He believes that he is the Hindu god Vishnu and that he can perform miracles. The truth is much darker. As Kalki struggles to extract himself from under the thumb of his controlling father, he must also reconcile with the idea that everything he's ever been told might not be true. When his fath...

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Blue-Skinned Gods - SJ Sindu

In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy named Kalki is born with blue skin. He believes that he is the Hindu god Vishnu and that he can perform miracles. The truth is much darker. <p>As Kalki struggles to extract himself from under the thumb of his controlling father, he must also reconcile with the idea that everything he’s ever been told might not be true. When his father dra...

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The Bandit Queens: Longlisted for the Women´s Prize for Fiction 2023 - Shroff Parini

Anotace: Longlisted for the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2023A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 2023`Not since Aravind Adiga`s The White Tiger has the rotten core of modern India been exposed in quite such blackly antic fashion as Parini Shroff manages here in this intermittently absurd, feminist revenge caper about a group of snarky, much-abused, predominantly Hindu wives...shee...

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Buddha 1: Kapilavastu - Tezuka Osamu

Anotace: Osamu Tezuka`s vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his eight-volume epic of Siddhartha`s life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha`s ideas; the emphasis is on movement, action, emotion, and conflict as the prince Siddhartha runs away from hom...

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Honor - Thrity Umrigar

<p>'A powerful, important, unforgettable book' Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide. Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long a...

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Buddha 1: Kapilavastu - Osamu Tezuka

<p>Osamu Tezuka's vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his eight-volume epic of Siddhartha's life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha's ideas; the emphasis is on movement, action, emotion, and conflict as the prince Siddhartha runs away from home...

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Honor - Umrigar Thrity

Anotace: `A powerful, important, unforgettable book` Cheryl Strayed, author of WildIn this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide.Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ag...

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