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Savarkar And The Making Of Hindutva

Janaki Bakhle

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Binding: Paper Back

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Language: English

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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883?1966) was an intellectual, ideologue, and anticolonial nationalist leader in India?s struggle for independence from British colonial rule, one whose anti-Muslim writings exploited India?s tensions in pursuit of Hindu majority rule. Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva is the first comprehensive intellectual history of one of the most contentious political thinkers of the twentieth century. Janaki Bakhle examines the full range of Savarkar?s voluminous writings in his native language of Marathi, from political and historical works to poetry, essays, and speeches. She reveals the complexities in the various positions he took as a champion of the beleaguered Hindu community, an anticaste progressive, an erudite if polemical historian, a pioneering advocate for women?s dignity, and a patriotic poet. This critical examination of Savarkar?s thought shows that Hindutva is as much about the aesthetic experiences that have been attached to the idea of

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Author	Janaki Bakhle
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Language	English
Binding Type	Paper Back
Non Fiction	History & Politics
ISBN13	9780691262444
SKU	BK 0170374