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Postcolonial Theory and the Making of Hindu Nationalism: The Wages of Unreason

Postcolonial Theory and the Making of Hindu Nationalism: The Wages of Unreason

Nanda, Meera

Paperback

Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1032848502
ISBN13: 9781032848501
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 16 2026
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book tells the story of two strange bedfellows, the Postcolonial Left and the Hindu Right.

It argues that the Postcolonial Left's relentless attacks on the epistemic violence of Western norms of rationality and modernity are providing the conceptual vocabulary for the Hindu Right's project of decolonizing the Hindu mind. The postcolonial project of provincializing Europe is widely shared by the Hindu Right, and harks back to the Hindu revivalist movements of the nineteenth century. This book argues that postcolonial thought in India bears a strong family resemblance, in context and content, with the conservative revolution that brought down the Weimar Repbulic in Germany before the Nazi takeover.

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