Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear

1. Front Matter

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2. Hindu Nationalism in India

   • Dibyesh Anand

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3. Hindu Nation under Siege

   • Dibyesh Anand

   Pages 19-47

4. Pornosexualizing “The Muslim”

   • Dibyesh Anand

   Pages 49-81

5. The Unawakened India

   • Dibyesh Anand

   Pages 83-96

6. Awakening the Hindu Mind and the Hindu Body

   • Dibyesh Anand

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7. The Awakened Hindu India: Ayodhya and Gujarat

   • Dibyesh Anand

   Pages 123-150

8. Politics of Fear

   • Dibyesh Anand

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9. Back Matter

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The representation of the Muslims as threatening to India's body politic is central to the Hindu nationalist project of organizing a political movement and normalizing anti-minority violence. Adopting a critical ethnographic approach, this book identifies the poetics and politics of fear and violence engendered within Hindu nationalism.

• gender
• nationalism
• politics
• violence

"How is fear created, spread and updated? In this revelatory book, Dibyesh Anand takes us deep into the multi-stranded fear-engendering strategies employed by India's contemporary Hindu nationalists. With a sharp feminist eye for exactly how both femininities and masculinities are wielded, he provides lessons for all of us concerned about the mobilization of ethnic hatreds and militarized nationalisms." - Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War"Dibyesh Anand s book offers a sustained, innovative analysis of a central aspect of Hindu nationalist collective imaginings: the production of anti-Other fear. It is a must-read for anyone interested in right-wing social and political movements and in the local-to-transnational conflict in which they are engaged."

- Paola Bacchetta, professor, University of California, Berkeley

DIBYESH ANAND is Reader in International Relations at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, UK.