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  • Green and SaffronThe RSS, Modi, and Indian Environmental Politics

    de Mukul Sharma ...
    This book examines the intersection of contemporary environmental issues and movements in independent India, and the development of Hindu conservative ideology and politics. It also focuses on post-2014 scenarios up to the present day.Sharma argues that these two social currents environmental conservation and Hindu politics have forged strong bonds. He reveals the hijacking of environmentalism ... Leer más

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    Dalits and Indian Environmental Policies

    de Mukul Sharma ...
    Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste. Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood as a constructed historical and social entity. Mukul Sharma shows how caste and nature are intimately connected. He compares Dalit meanings of environment to ideas and practices of neo-Brahmanism and certain mainstreams of environmental ... Leer más

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  • Republic of Hindutva

    How the Sangh Is Reshaping Indian Democracy

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    For many years, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been working towards social reconstruction in India, which is then used by the Bharatiya Janata Party for political benefit. Contrary to popular understanding, the RSS has transformed to become more technologically savvy and socially inclusive, making the message of Hindu nationalism appealing to a large section of Indians. It has been actively ... Leer más

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  • Tamil Brahmans

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  • Caste

    A Global Story

    Caste, and caste-based discrimination, are not just Indian issues. They are experienced throughout the world, from Britain to Bahrain, Canada to South Africa. This is a global phenomenon, demanding global solutions. Leading scholar Suraj Milind Yengde shines a light on the Dalit experience internationally, from indentured laborers in the nineteenth-century Caribbean to present-day migrant workers ... Leer más

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  • Caste and Democratic Politics in India

    The Indian constitution seeks to prevent the perpetuation of caste and build a casteless social system. But this has not happened over the fifty-odd years since Indian independence, and shows little sign of happening in the near future. Therefore no understanding of Indian politics is possible without a thorough understanding of the complexities of caste. The aim of this book is to bring about ... Leer más

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  • Adivasi or Vanvasi

    Tribal India and the Politics of Hindutva

    ‘An extremely important and timely book’ --- Nandini Sundar, Professor Department of Sociology, Delhi University.Akhil Bhartiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, popularly known as Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram or VKA is the tribal wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). As the largest tribal organization in the country, it works in many areas of Kerala, Jharkhand and the North-east of India. Till the late 1970s, ... Leer más

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  • The God Market

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  • Reinventing India

    Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy

    When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development. Nehru's India never quite fulfilled this promise, but more recently his vision of India has been challenged by two "revolts of the elites": those of economic liberalization and Hindu nationalism. These revolts ... Leer más

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  • Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan

    Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito

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    Presenting a study of politics at grassroots level among young Japanese, this book examines the alliance between the religious movement Soka Gakkai (the ‘Value-creation Society’) and Komeito (the ‘Clean Government Party’), which shared power with the Liberal Democratic Party from 1999 to 2009. Drawing on primary research carried out among Komeito supporters, the book focuses on the lives of ... Leer más

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  • Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, and the Early Indian Classical Period

    The Obligations of Power

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