Fascinating Hindutva : saffron politics and Dalit mobilisation /
Badri Narayan.
- 1st ed.
- New Delhi ; Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2009.
- xiii, 195 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-189) and index.
Introduction : pastness and politics -- Saffron imagining of the local : a communal map of an Indian village -- Exploring Dalit militia : local cultures and communal politics -- Making of a warring hero : Hindutva politics of memory and forgetting -- Creating popular politics : caste histories and BJP's electoral discourse -- Legend war : mapping the political mobilisation of the Nishads -- The politics of cultural resources : the Mushahars of North India -- Saffronisation of a Dalit hero : the story of Salhes of North Bihar -- The path traversed and the way ahead.