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Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Politics of History

Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Politics of History

Chaturvedi, Vinayak

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Biographies GeneralHinduismIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1438488777
ISBN13: 9781438488776
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Sep 1 2022
Pages: 479
Weight: 1.92
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism.

Hindutva and Violence explores the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966), the most controversial Indian political thinker of the twentieth century and a key architect of Hindu nationalism. Examining his central claim that Hindutva is not a word but a history, the book argues that, for Savarkar, this history was not a total history, a complete history, or a narrative history. Rather, its purpose was to trace key historical events to a powerful source-the font of motivation for chief actors of the past who had turned to violence in a permanent war for Hindutva as the founding principle of a Hindu nation. At the center of Savarkar's writings are historical characters who not only participated in ethical warfare against invaders, imperialists, and conquerors in India, but also became Hindus in acts of violence. He argues that the discipline of history provides the only method for interpreting Hindutva.

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