Fascinating Hindutva: saffron politics and Dalit mobilisation/
Badri Narayan
- New Delhi: SAGE, 2008.
- xiii, 195 p.
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.
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Dalits--Political activity Dalits--Social conditions Bharatiya Janata Party Hinduism and politics