Memories in the Service of the Hindu Nation
Title | Memories in the Service of the Hindu Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Pranav Kohli |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2023-09-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1009318683 |
This ethnography connects the memories of the 1947 Partition to Hindu nationalism and the global swing to the right.
Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India
Title | Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India PDF eBook |
Author | Anjali Roy |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2019-07-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0429017367 |
This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of Hindu and Sikh survivors from West Punjab to foreground the intersection between history, memory and narrative. It shows how survivors script their life stories to reinscribe tragic tales of violence and abjection into triumphalist sagas of fortitude, resilience, industry, enterprise and success. At the same time, it reveals the silences, stutters and stammers that interrupt survivors’ narrations to bring attention to the untold stories repressed in their consensual narratives. By drawing upon current research in history, memory, narrative, violence, trauma, affect, home, nation, borders, refugees and citizenship, the book analyzes the traumatizing effects of both the tangible and intangible violence of Partition by tracing the survivors’ journey from refugees to citizens as they struggle to make new homes and lives in an unhomely land. Moreover, arguing that the event of Partition radically transformed the notions of home, belonging, self and community, it shows that individuals affected by Partition produce a new ethics and aesthetic of displacement and embody new ways of being in the world. An important contribution to the field of Partition studies, this book will be of interest to researchers on South Asian history, memory, partition and postcolonial studies.
Postmemory and the Partition of India
Title | Postmemory and the Partition of India PDF eBook |
Author | Shuchi Kapila |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 159 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3031433971 |
Ways of Remembering: Volume 1
Title | Ways of Remembering: Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Oishik Sircar |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2024-05-31 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1009281925 |
Ways of Remembering tells a story about the relationship between secular law and religious violence by studying the memorialisation of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom—postcolonial India's most litigated and mediatized event of anti-Muslim mass violence. By reading judgments and films on the pogrom through a novel interpretive framework, the book argues that the shared narrative of law and cinema engenders ways of remembering the pogrom in which the rationality of secular law offers a resolution to the irrationality of religious violence. In the public's collective memory, the force of this rationality simultaneously condemns and normalises violence against Muslims while exonerating secular law from its role in enabling the pogrom, thus keeping the violent (legal) order against India's Muslim citizens intact. The book contends that in foregrounding law's aesthetic dimensions we see the discursive ways in which secular law organizes violence and presents itself as the panacea for that very violence.
Malevolent Republic
Title | Malevolent Republic PDF eBook |
Author | K. S. Komireddi |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2024-03-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1911723286 |
Hailed as the world's largest democracy and feted by the Trump administration in events like "Howdy Modi" in Houston, India is fast slipping into autocracy under the bigoted rule of Prime Minister Modi and this blistering critique shows how.
Hindu Nationalism, History and Identity in India
Title | Hindu Nationalism, History and Identity in India PDF eBook |
Author | Lars Tore Flåten |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317208714 |
When the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed power in India in 1998 as the largest party of the National Democratic Alliance, it soon became evident that it prioritized educational reforms. Under BJP rule, a reorganization of the National Council of Educational Research and Training occurred, and in 2002 four new history textbooks were published. This book examines the new textbooks which were introduced, considering them to be integral to the BJP’s political agenda. It analyses the ways in which their narrative and explanatory frameworks defined and invoked Hindu identity. Employing the concept of decontextualization, the author argues that notions of Hindu cultural similarity were conveyed, particularly as the textbooks paid scarce attention to social, geographical and temporal contexts in their approaches to Indian history. The book shows that intrinsic to the textbooks’ emphasis on similarity is a systematic backgrounding of any references to internal lines of division within the Hindu community. Through a comparison with earlier textbooks, it sheds light on the contested nature of history writing in India, especially in terms of nation building and identity construction. This issue is also highly relevant in India today due to the electoral success of the BJP in 2014, and the efforts of the Hindu nationalist organization Vishwa Hindu Parishad to construct a coherent Hinduism. Arguing that the textbooks operate according to the BJP’s ideology of Hindu cultural nationalism, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of South Asian studies, contemporary history, the uses of history, identity politics and Hindu nationalism.
The Last Hindu Emperor
Title | The Last Hindu Emperor PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Talbot |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1107118565 |
This book traces the genealogy and historical memory of the twelfth-century ruler Prithviraj Chauhan, remembered as the 'last Hindu Emperor of India'.