Edward Anderson - Neo-Hindutva

Neo-Hindutva explores the recent proliferation and evolution of Hindu nationalism the assertive, majoritarian, right-wing ideology that is transforming contemporary India.

This volume develops and expands on the idea of neo-Hindutva Hindu nationalist ideology which is evolving and shifting in new, surprising, and significant ways, requiring a reassessment and reframing of prevailing understandings. The contributors identify and explain the ways in which Hindu nationalism increasingly permeates into new spaces: organisational, territorial, conceptual, rhetorical. The scope of the chapters reflects the diversity of contemporary Hindutva both in India and beyond which appears simultaneously brazen but concealed, nebulous, and mainstreamed, militant yet normalised. They cover a wide range of topics and places in which one can locate new forms of Hindu nationalism: courts of law, the Northeast, the diaspora, Adivasi (tribal) communities, a powerful yoga guru, and the Internet. The volume also includes an in-depth interview with Christophe Jaffrelot and a postscript by Deepa Reddy.

Helping readers to make sense of contemporary Hindutva, Neo-Hindutva is ideal for scholars of India, Hinduism, Nationalism, and Asian Studies more generally.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary South Asia.

Edward Anderson is the Smuts Research Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is based in the Department of Politics and International Studies, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. From October 2019 he will be a Senior Research Fellow at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.

Arkotong Longkumer is an Anthropologist who teaches Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author of Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging: The Heraka Movement of Northeast India (2010). He is currently finishing a book on Hindu nationalism and indigenous peoples in Northeast India.

Evolving Forms, Spaces, and Expressions of Hindu Nationalism

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Edward Anderson and Arkotong Longkumer

First published 2020
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Edward Anderson and Arkotong Longkumer

Saumya Saxena

Arkotong Longkumer

Bhuvi Gupta and Jacob Copeman

Ketan Alder

Priya Swamy

Sahana Udupa

Edward Anderson and Christophe Jaffrelot

Deepa S. Reddy

The following chapters were originally published in Contemporary South Asia, volume 26, issue 4 (2018) and Contemporary South Asia, volume 27, issue 3 (2019). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows: